* David Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this issue was raised a few days ago in the context of someone > tampering with the files and it was decided that the extra checks were > good enough to prevent this (at least for now), but what about > accidental collisions? > > if I am understanding things right the objects get saved in the > filesystem in filenames that are the SHA1 hash. of two legitimate > files have the same hash I don't see any way for both of them to > exist. > > yes the risk of any two files having the same has is low, but in the > earlier thread someone chimed in and said that they had two files on > their system that had the same hash..
you can add -DCOLLISION_CHECK to Makefile:CFLAGS to turn on collision checking (disabled currently). If there indeed exist two files that have different content but the same hash, could someone send those two files? Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html