On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 9:04 PM, vinassa vinassa <vinassa.vinassa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I found some mention of this in the archive, more about SHA-1 security > implications, that were dismissed, but here I am looking at just a > random, very unfortunate case, and just wondering if in this case I > would end up in a FUBAR situation. I do not see how such an event would be very unfortunate considering that it would make you instantaneously famous, so you could write a lot of articles about what happened and make a fortunate of it... but if we consider a _far_ much more likely event like some object from the sky falling directly on your head at the moment when you are doing a commit, that I would be really very unfortunate... So, maybe, you should rent space in a bunker first just to work safely... Seriously, it is so ridiculous to worry so much about so improbable event, while in practice a lot of repository corruptions comes from unreliable DRAM, disk storage, or some other reasons. The mean time between failures for high quality components is only a few hundred years while doing a commit every second will take dozen million times more than the age of our universe to generate a collision. So, those probabilities are so different that there is nothing in our every day experiences that has the same scale difference. It is like a hair width and the distance to the closest star. Dmitry -- 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