Re: [IGNORETHIS/PATCH] Choosing the sha1 prefix of your commits

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On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 08:03:24PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>>
>>> This is quick hack I wrote just before leaving work to show that I
>>> could indeed push patches to our main repository starting with
>>> 31337. Names hidden to protect the innocent.
>>
> If you don't mind waiting, you could just increase the timestamps
> until you get the desired collision. (If you still want them to be
> correct, trying 4000000 times would about 6 weeks though :).

But the nice thing is that we have both author and committer dates to
twiddle with, meaning that if we need 4000000 different values to try
then it's only 2000 for each of those two dates, i.e. we only need to
be willing to let those dates float by about half an hour.
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