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Re:Beautify the Git commit hash (have a look at the commit h... by ajross on Sunday October 02, 2011 @12:24AM (#3062065)
Exactly! That's exactly what I was thinking reading this... it's a bad thing, not a feature. Why on earth would anyone do this to their repo willingly? This is visual aesthetics run amok, in the hands of someone who doesn't understand what the point of that hash value was. Ouch.
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Re:Beautify the Git commit hash (have a look at the commit h... by vog on Sunday October 02, 2011 @06:41AM (#3062520)
You are missing the fact that this is a toy project and by no means meant seriously.

Apart from that, of course you should use sensible prefixes like "0001", "0002", etc. and not use the same prefix for all commits.

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