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Imagine if you merge a branch of old commits from another repo or something, which introduce short hash collisions. Then you copy/paste a short hash, and Git do
by farnsworth 10y ago
Imagine if you merge a branch of old commits from another repo or something, which introduce short hash collisions. Then you copy/paste a short hash, and Git doesn't know when that reference is from or which branch it might refer to.