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Re: Files with identical SHA1 breaks the repo

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_apache.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 14:55:34 +0100

On 24.02.2017 13:41, Andreas Stieger wrote:
>> Linus weighs on on Git's use of SHA1 (may be interesting)
>> http://marc.info/?l=git&m=148787047422954&w=2
> It affects svn more due to it's use of sha1 for versioned entities (here: files) rather than trees.

Except that content indexing in Subversion is an optional implementation
detail of one repository implementation whereas in Git the SHA1 unique
identity of a commit is built into the design.

-- Brane
Received on 2017-02-24 14:55:39 CET

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