Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:
You're also really doing two things to fix the problem here, either one
of which would have been sufficient: increasing the abbreviation size
and using test_tick to get a deterministic run.
...
Doing it once is enough to make the test deterministic, and for this
particular case we don't actually care at all whether all of the commits
have the exact same timestamp. So I think it's fine.
;-)