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CJefferson
on Feb 24, 2017
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Linus' reply on Git and SHA-1 collision
I wish they'd thought about this in advance. So many little things (like suffixing every hash with '1', and rejecting commits with hash values which don't end with '1') would have made the switchover much easier to do in a backwards-compatible way.
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