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Re:Git reset vs. Git revert by futureastronaut on Monday February 04, 2019 @10:08PM (#19082760)
Who knows, but from those comments:

> Really hard to take anything you say seriously when you use the entire aplhabet for your hexadecimal SHA1 examples.

Touche.

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Re:Git reset vs. Git revert by quickthrower2 on Monday February 04, 2019 @10:55PM (#19082918)
I like those hashes. Why don't we use the entire alphabet. Base64 would be cool.
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Re:Git reset vs. Git revert by black-tea on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:06AM (#19083686)
Way harder to remember a hash using base64. Hex is much more manageable and you still only need to remember 4-5 digits usually.
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Re:Git reset vs. Git revert by quickthrower2 on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @04:15PM (#19089891)
If it is about memory, why not generate 4 or so words as the 'visual' hash, which is probably good enough for most teams to use for branching/merging without experiencing clashes.
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