Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote: > >> 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. > > 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)? -- Jakub Narebski Poland - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html