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Re:The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1 by Thorrez on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @11:27PM (#21988344)
His argument assumes the file is text and people read the entire thing. If either of those assumptions are false, then it's not safe.

People store things in git that aren't text. Therefore it's not safe.

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