retep: You can always pad the git ID with 24 zeroes to get it 256bit:
Here is the gitID of Webconverger 18.0 padded with 24 zeroes:
57437d19b849af2622850a27f6e065afeede54dc000000000000000000000000
Good point!
Actually, how about 160bit hashes are put in the address directly then?