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Re:Beautify the Git commit hash (have a look at the commit h... by CJefferson on Sunday October 02, 2011 @04:24AM (#3062364)
While it does increase the chances of a hash collision, note that no-one has ever been able to find a SHA-1 collision, out of all the projects that use it everywhere.

If you find a SHA-1 collision, by any method, you will become very, very famous. It will probably be worth having a broken git repository.

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