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From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Subject: Re: Distribution of longest common hash prefixes
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:11:44 -0700
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>>>>> "James" == James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> writes:

James> With that version the kernel gives:

James> 0: 
James> 1: 
James> 2: 
James> 3: 565
James> 4: 288450
James> 5: 139080
James> 6: 10699
James> 7: 700
James> 8: 32
James> 9: 2

Fascinating.  So you can spell out *any* commit in linux-2.6.git with
10 hex chars.  What do we need 40 for, again? :)

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