Re: SHA-1 collision in repository?

On Mar 2, 2018, at 6:16 PM, Philip Martin <philip_at_codematters.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Since the file being committed matched a SHA1 in the rep-cache the
> commit process will attempt to remove this delta but will first verify
> that the fulltext obtained by expanding the delta in the protorev file
> matches the fulltext in the repository, see get_shared_rep() in
> subversion/libsvn_fs_fs/transaction.c.
>

Does this mean that content being committed to the repository is never elided based on the SHA hash alone but only after a fulltext verification that the content actually already exists in the repository?
Received on 2018-03-04 03:08:51 CET