Cook: Colliding with the SHA prefix of Linux's initial Git commit

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2024-12-30 23:00:05

This is not yet in the upstream Linux tree, for fear of breaking countless other tools out in the wild. But it can serve as a test commit for those that want to get this fixed ahead of any future collisions (or this commit actually landing).

LWN looked at commit-ID collisions a few weeks back. to post comments

Totally something Case would do Posted Dec 30, 2024 22:39 UTC (Mon) by mricon (subscriber, #59252) [Link] When I first met Case, it was at a conference in San Diego, when he was plugging in a WiFi router he brought with him from home into an outlet in the hallway. His stated reason was to hope that the SSID is added to the Apple/Google tracking databases, so next time someone drives by his house in Portland and registers his home wifi signal, the tracker would be confused. Anyway, all of this is to say that this story 100% checks out and this is totally something Case would do.

Posted Dec 30, 2024 22:39 UTC (Mon) by mricon (subscriber, #59252) [Link]