VCS comparison table

Jakub Narebski jnareb at gmail.com
Fri Oct 20 12:09:36 BST 2006


Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Lachlan Patrick wrote:
> 
>> How does git disambiguate SHA1 hash collisions?
> 
> It does not. You can fully expect the universe to go down before that 
> happens.
 
Or you can compile git with COLLISION_CHECK

>From Makefile:
# Define COLLISION_CHECK below if you believe that SHA1's
# 1461501637330902918203684832716283019655932542976 hashes do not give you
# sufficient guarantee that no collisions between objects will ever happen.
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git






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