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Customize your git commit hashes!

13 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 6 stories, 7 comments · first 2021-07-09 · latest 2025-03-28

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    Ask HN: Does anyone else like purely numeric shorthashes?
    story by keepamovin · 2025-03-28 · 1 comment
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    Lucky-commit: customize your Git commit hashes
    story by goranmoomin · 2024-11-11 · 0 comments
  3. https://github.com/not-an-aardvark/lucky-commit and others have shown up to engineer (read: brute-force) these early hash digits
    comment by 3r7j6qzi9jvnve · 2024-10-30 · in Git commit with hash `0000000`
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    Customize your Git commit hashes
    story by Alifatisk · 2024-08-25 · 0 comments
  5. Selective partial SHA1/SHA2 matches only take a few seconds. https://github.com/not-an-aardvark/lucky-commit
    comment by ahazred8ta · 2024-07-06 · in How random are TOTP codes?
  6. From the same author: https://github.com/not-an-aardvark/lucky-commit a tool for generating commits with specific shorthashes.
    comment by ackfoobar · 2024-05-15 · in Accidentally breaking GitHub Actions with a shorthash collision (2019)
  7. You can do a lot with various whitespace characters, see for example https://github.com/not-an-aardvark/lucky-commit .
    comment by layer8 · 2022-12-31 · in Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git
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    Lucky-commit: Customize your Git commit hashes
    story by GordonS · 2022-11-24 · 0 comments
  9. …wonder about performance, though. Why is the author's method slower than the package I linked? [0]: https://github.com/not-an-aardvark/lucky-commit
    comment by kinduff · 2022-11-22 · in Extremely Linear Git History
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    Lucky-commit – Customize your Git commit hashes
    story by losfair · 2022-08-11 · 0 comments
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    Lucky Commit – Customize your Git commit hashes
    story by sebmellen · 2021-07-10 · 1 comment
  12. Hah, that's clever. The author is using their other toy research tool/project: https://github.com/not-an-aardvark/lucky-commit
    comment by surye · 2021-07-09 · in Generate a Git repository with 2^28 commits—one for every 7-character shorthash
  13. https://github.com/not-an-aardvark/lucky-commit
    comment by seba_dos1 · 2021-07-09 · in Git-power: emPOWer your commits with bespoke hashes