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Re: ident hash usage question

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Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date
Oct 20, 2009, 20:22 UTC
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On Dienstag, 20. Oktober 2009, Alex Riesen wrote:
> What's so hard with storing the SHA-1 of the *commit*, anyway?

The hard part is that you get a cycle: commit SHA1 depends on contents depends on commit SHA1.

-- Hannes
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