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From: Sebastian Morr <sebastian@morr.cc>
To: Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Yo dawg, I heard you like trees...
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 16:54:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111207155411.GB2003@thinkpad> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABURp0rBkGtGfU=od2XeuhD6otUWUfL2ASqo1XBckra18WKy7w@mail.gmail.com>

> Git uses a DAG. The A stands for "acyclic". Loops are not allowed.

I'm aware of that. It's acyclic by design, but is this actually enforced
by the code? Or does it simply trust that no loops will ever occur,
because it's so improbable?

After Andrew's response I investigated a bit, and it seems I
overvalued the attempts to "break" SHA-1. Wikipedia quotes a 2008
attack, that can create a collision with 2^51 hash function calls.

Which, of course, is still way to much. Good for you! :-)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-07 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-05 23:57 Yo dawg, I heard you like trees Sebastian Morr
2011-12-06  0:04 ` Andrew Ardill
     [not found] ` <CABURp0rBkGtGfU=od2XeuhD6otUWUfL2ASqo1XBckra18WKy7w@mail.gmail.com>
2011-12-07 15:54   ` Sebastian Morr [this message]
2011-12-07 22:12     ` Jeff King

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