No, it’s not. Commit hashes are exactly what it says on the tin: hash sums of commit objects, which are basically text files that include hash sums of tree obje

No, it’s not. Commit hashes are exactly what it says on the tin: hash sums of commit objects, which are basically text files that include hash sums of tree objects (directory tree state), hash sums of parent commits, your commit message and other metadata. You can see it with "git cat-file": $ git cat-file -p d8defd0bb0062ed541de173a2aec834b64d6adbe tree cbdb56fe9bb1766d8fc2b2e53c9c934efbacbf1c parent a8a1049c06d100a3f926a82414e6addb9b9af5e8 author ilammy <alexei@cossacklabs.com> 1581533224 +0200 committer ilammy <alexei@cossacklabs.com> 1581533224 +0200 fixup! Avoid unsigned overflow in length computations And compute the commit hash manually to verify that: $ sha=d8defd0bb0062ed541de173a2aec834b64d6adbe $ cat <(echo -ne "$(git cat-file -t $sha) $(git cat-file -s $sha)\0") \ <(git cat-file -p $sha) | sha1sum d8defd0bb0062ed541de173a2aec834b64d6adbe - Git prefixes object content with object type ("commit" in case of commits), its size in bytes (textual, decimal), terminated by a null byte. And hashes all of that get the commit hash.