Stopped trying to do my own hashing and rely on Git for now

functions/github_hash.sh

@@ -14,8 +14,11 @@
 # Calculate the Git hash for a file
 function fn_get_git_hash(){
 	filename=$1
-	if [ -e $filename ]
+	if [ -e $filename ]; then
-	then
+		gitcmd="$(which git)"
+		if [ -x "${gitcmd}" ]; then
+			$gitcmd hash-object "${filename}"
+		else
 			filesize=$(stat --format='%s' $filename)
 			if [ "$(tail -c1 $filename)" == "" ]; then
 				printf "blob %d\0%s\n" "${filesize}" "$(cat $filename)" | sha1sum | awk '{print $1}'
@@ -23,6 +26,7 @@ function fn_get_git_hash(){
 				printf "blob %d\0%s" "${filesize}" "$(cat $filename)" | sha1sum | awk '{print $1}'
 			fi
 		fi
+	fi
 }
 
 fn_get_github_manifest(){