On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 06:32:35AM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:27:57PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > > Though I haven't tested. It would be nice to have an md5git (or even > > truncated-sha1-git) program to test this kind of thing with. > > Fortunately we have such a thing: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/184243 > > That one actually has 40 bits of hash entropy, so you'd expect to > generate 2^20 (about a million) commits before accidentally colliding. > If you want an easier experiment, you could truncate it even further. Would it be helpful to truncate this to something ludicrous like a single byte of entropy, to be able to write tests for the various tools and options? Cheers, V -- terreActive AG Kasinostrasse 30 CH-5001 Aarau Tel: +41 62 834 00 55 Fax: +41 62 823 93 56 www.terreactive.ch Wir sichern Ihren Erfolg - seit 15 Jahren -- 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