Re: Hash collision count

  From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>

  Pasky:

  > No, a collision is pretty common thing, actually. It's the main power of
  > git, actually - when you do read-tree, modify it and do write-tree
  > (typically when doing commit), everything you didn't modify (99% of
  > stuff, most likely) is basically a collision - but it's ok since it
  > just stays the same.

That is not the way people ordinarily use the word "collision". It's pretty much the opposite of the normal way, actually.

-t