Re: Distribution of longest common hash prefixes

> Yeah, the short SHA1 form is obviously always going to be risky. But in 
> practice, since people almost always use it just for commits, it's 
> probably good enough in practice, and even if you get a collision in 8 
> nibbles, most of the time it will probably be trivial to figure out which 
> one was meant, so it's not like it's a disaster if somebody ends up 
> reporting a bug with a non-unique abbreviation.