Re: VCS comparison table

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Lachlan Patrick wrote:

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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.

You can document your disbelief.

But it does not change a thing. Since v0.99~653, we do not have any 
collision check, even if compiled with COLLISION_CHECK.

So why it is left in Makefile? Does defining this change a thing
or not (in which case this section should be removed)?

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Jakub Narebski
Poland