When is the right time to worry? Maybe wait until someone publishes a practical attack, then wait years for the new code to get sufficiently far out into the world that you can switch to it?

I mean, I see you're expressing concern, but the first major red flag on this went up three years ago, and another big one went up last month. (https://sha-mbles.github.io/)

When we dealt with this same problem over in Fossil land, we ended up needing to wait most of three years for Debian to finally ship a new enough binary that we could switch the default to SHA-3. Fortunately (?) RHEL doesn't ship Fossil, else we'd likely have had to wait even longer.

Atop that same problem, Git's also got tremendously more inertia. Git has to wait out not only the Debian and RHEL stable package policies but also all of that infrastructure tooling they brag on. Every random programmer's editor, merge tool, Git front end... all of that which a project depends on will have to convert over before that one project can move to a post-SHA-1 future.

This is going to be a colossal mess.