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Josh Stone
Personal blog · blog.cuviper.comprogrammingsystems
Josh Stone's personal blog at blog.cuviper.com covers programming and systems. Since 2014, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “How short can Git abbreviate? (2013)”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Josh Stone's post on how short Git abbreviated hashes can be before they collide. One commenter cites it as a reference for short-hash collisions in the Linux kernel.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Ideas, opinions, and inanities
Most-linked posts?
- How short can Git abbreviate? (2013)4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-10-22
What Hacker News says?
See also: https://blog.cuviper.com/2013/11/10/how-short-can-git-abbrev...
Comment linking /2013/11/10/how-short-can-git-abbreviate/
on “Generate a Git repository with 2^28 commits—one for every 7-character shorthash”Submitted How short can Git abbreviate? (2013) as a story · 55 points
HN discussionThe linux kernel had 3 of those, in 2013: https://blog.cuviper.com/2013/11/10/how-short-can-git-abbrev... By now it's up to at least 7 (going by my clone of 5.12-rc1 that I had lying around), and it's becoming more likely. Those collisions happened with objects other than commits (of which there are more), but that's by no means guaranteed.
Comment linking /2013/11/10/how-short-can-git-abbreviate/
on “Git.io deprecation: Active links to be maintained in a read-only state”Submitted How short can Git abbreviate? (2013) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How short can Git abbreviate? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How short can Git abbreviate? (2013) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Add new warnings to GCC with Python as a story · 1 points
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