On 2/9/15, j. van den hoff <veedeeh...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> maybe a stupid question, but I've just seen this for the first time. in my
> timeline there is an entry
> with a sha1 hash display of [52060472835f] which clearly stands out from
> the other entries since
> the string length is 12 instead of the usual 10.
>

(1) Minimum of 10 characters
(2) Longer as needed to include at least one character in [a-f]

> I understand of course that the full hash is longer anyway,
> but why does it happen, that a certain timeline entry is displaying a
> longer substring from the full hash?
>
> it definitely is not that case that there is another entry with the same
> 10 leading characters in its hash (should
> happen anyway only in about 10^11  repositories of this size ....)
>
> so what is controlling the length of the displayed sha1 substring?
>
> thx/j 
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