From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:09:36 GMT
Subject: Re: VCS comparison table
Message-ID: <ehaapb$5t7$3@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0610201034170.14200@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Lachlan Patrick wrote:
> 
>> How does git disambiguate SHA1 hash collisions?
> 
> It does not. You can fully expect the universe to go down before that 
> happens.
 
Or you can compile git with COLLISION_CHECK

>From Makefile:
# Define COLLISION_CHECK below if you believe that SHA1's
# 1461501637330902918203684832716283019655932542976 hashes do not give you
# sufficient guarantee that no collisions between objects will ever happen.