Subject: Re: bug#13949: 24.4.1; `fill-paragraph' should not always put the buffer as modified

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 23:24:55 +0300

On 03/27/2016 06:53 PM, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> I look forward to seeing you visiting the git mailing list and starting
> to agitate for not using sha-1 hashes as object identifiers in git,
> because it might obviously lose data if you happen to get collisions.

a) Why didn't they use md5, I wonder?

b) Git has a global object index. It _can_ detect collisions, or at 
least that detection can be implemented.