On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 at 08:03, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> I have wondered about using a different encoding for the sha1.
> Classic Ascii85 encoding is no good; it uses characters like '"\<
> which interact poorly with every shell. RFC1924 is somewhat better,
> but still uses characters that interac
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 11:19:18AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Why do I care? Because long git commit IDs are actually detrimental to
> legibility. I try to make commit messages legible, and that very much
> is the *point* of the short format. It's for people, not machinery.
>
> Yes, the basic
Hi Linus,
On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 8:19 PM Linus Torvalds
wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 at 10:16, Geert Uytterhoeven
> wrote:
> > Hence according to the Birthday Paradox, collisions of 12-chararacter
> > git commit IDs are imminent, or already happening.
>
> Note that ambiguous commit IDs are not e
On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 at 10:16, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> Hence according to the Birthday Paradox, collisions of 12-chararacter
> git commit IDs are imminent, or already happening.
Note that ambiguous commit IDs are not even remotely as scary as this implies.
Yes, the current kernel tree has ov
