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Additionally, AFAIK, none of the major repo hosting services (GitHub, gitlab, Bitbucket) support sha-256 repos.

This is true however that is changing very soon now that SHA-256 is no longer marked experimental.

GitLab has been working on integrating SHA-256 support for a while. According to this comment[1], there's only one major blocker left (which seems to be completed at the time of this comment) before they can start testing SHA256 support on GitLab.org.

1. https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/10981#note_1797...

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