diff --git a/Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt
index 440541045d..6ddbceba15 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt
@@ -42,8 +42,13 @@ HEADER:
   1-byte version number:
       Currently, the only valid version is 1.
 
-  1-byte Hash Version (1 = SHA-1)
-      We infer the hash length (H) from this value.
+  1-byte Hash Version
+      We infer the hash length (H) from this value:
+	1 => SHA-1
+	2 => SHA-256
+      If the hash type does not match the repository's hash algorithm, the
+      commit-graph file should be ignored with a warning presented to the
+      user.
 
   1-byte number (C) of "chunks"
 
diff --git a/commit-graph.c b/commit-graph.c
index e51c91dd5b..0ed003e218 100644
--- a/commit-graph.c
+++ b/commit-graph.c
@@ -179,7 +179,14 @@ static char *get_chain_filename(struct object_directory *odb)
 
 static uint8_t oid_version(void)
 {
-	return 1;
+	switch (hash_algo_by_ptr(the_hash_algo)) {
+	case GIT_HASH_SHA1:
+		return 1;
+	case GIT_HASH_SHA256:
+		return 2;
+	default:
+		die(_("invalid hash version"));
+	}
 }
 
 static struct commit_graph *alloc_commit_graph(void)
diff --git a/t/t4216-log-bloom.sh b/t/t4216-log-bloom.sh
index c21cc160f3..4bb9e9dbe2 100755
--- a/t/t4216-log-bloom.sh
+++ b/t/t4216-log-bloom.sh
@@ -30,12 +30,17 @@ test_expect_success 'setup test - repo, commits, commit graph, log outputs' '
 	rm file_to_be_deleted &&
 	git add . &&
 	git commit -m "file removed" &&
-	git commit-graph write --reachable --changed-paths
+	git commit-graph write --reachable --changed-paths &&
+
+	test_oid_cache <<-EOF
+	oid_version sha1:1
+	oid_version sha256:2
+	EOF
 '
 graph_read_expect () {
 	NUM_CHUNKS=5
 	cat >expect <<- EOF
-	header: 43475048 1 1 $NUM_CHUNKS 0
+	header: 43475048 1 $(test_oid oid_version) $NUM_CHUNKS 0
 	num_commits: $1
 	chunks: oid_fanout oid_lookup commit_metadata bloom_indexes bloom_data
 	EOF
diff --git a/t/t5318-commit-graph.sh b/t/t5318-commit-graph.sh
index 044cf8a3de..2ed0c1544d 100755
--- a/t/t5318-commit-graph.sh
+++ b/t/t5318-commit-graph.sh
@@ -10,7 +10,12 @@ test_expect_success 'setup full repo' '
 	cd "$TRASH_DIRECTORY/full" &&
 	git init &&
 	git config core.commitGraph true &&
-	objdir=".git/objects"
+	objdir=".git/objects" &&
+
+	test_oid_cache <<-EOF
+	oid_version sha1:1
+	oid_version sha256:2
+	EOF
 '
 
 test_expect_success POSIXPERM 'tweak umask for modebit tests' '
@@ -77,7 +82,7 @@ graph_read_expect() {
 		NUM_CHUNKS=$((3 + $(echo "$2" | wc -w)))
 	fi
 	cat >expect <<- EOF
-	header: 43475048 1 1 $NUM_CHUNKS 0
+	header: 43475048 1 $(test_oid oid_version) $NUM_CHUNKS 0
 	num_commits: $1
 	chunks: oid_fanout oid_lookup commit_metadata$OPTIONAL
 	EOF
@@ -412,6 +417,35 @@ test_expect_success 'replace-objects invalidates commit-graph' '
 	)
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'warn on improper hash version' '
+	git init --object-format=sha1 sha1 &&
+	(
+		cd sha1 &&
+		test_commit 1 &&
+		git commit-graph write --reachable &&
+		mv .git/objects/info/commit-graph ../cg-sha1
+	) &&
+	git init --object-format=sha256 sha256 &&
+	(
+		cd sha256 &&
+		test_commit 1 &&
+		git commit-graph write --reachable &&
+		mv .git/objects/info/commit-graph ../cg-sha256
+	) &&
+	(
+		cd sha1 &&
+		mv ../cg-sha256 .git/objects/info/commit-graph &&
+		git log -1 2>err &&
+		test_i18ngrep "commit-graph hash version 2 does not match version 1" err
+	) &&
+	(
+		cd sha256 &&
+		mv ../cg-sha1 .git/objects/info/commit-graph &&
+		git log -1 2>err &&
+		test_i18ngrep "commit-graph hash version 1 does not match version 2" err
+	)
+'
+
 # the verify tests below expect the commit-graph to contain
 # exactly the commits reachable from the commits/8 branch.
 # If the file changes the set of commits in the list, then the
diff --git a/t/t5324-split-commit-graph.sh b/t/t5324-split-commit-graph.sh
index ea28d522b8..18216463c7 100755
--- a/t/t5324-split-commit-graph.sh
+++ b/t/t5324-split-commit-graph.sh
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ test_expect_success 'setup repo' '
 
 	base sha1:1376
 	base sha256:1496
+
+	oid_version sha1:1
+	oid_version sha256:2
 	EOM
 '
 
@@ -28,7 +31,7 @@ graph_read_expect() {
 		NUM_BASE=$2
 	fi
 	cat >expect <<- EOF
-	header: 43475048 1 1 3 $NUM_BASE
+	header: 43475048 1 $(test_oid oid_version) 3 $NUM_BASE
 	num_commits: $1
 	chunks: oid_fanout oid_lookup commit_metadata
 	EOF