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In this specific context though, nobody is going to be manually calculating the binary hash of the source tree and encoding it, so this advantage doesn't seem v
by ptx 6y ago
In this specific context though, nobody is going to be manually calculating the binary hash of the source tree and encoding it, so this advantage doesn't seem very relevant.
The proposed solution would still be alphanumeric, so it would share that advantage.
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- notriddle 6y agoThe problem isn't with the algorithm encoding it. The problem is with other software mangling it. Base 64 has punctuation, it's case sensitive, and trimming a = off the end will (counterintuitively) result in a longer payload. All of this makes screwing around with commit hashes more complicated.