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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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  1. 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`
  2. 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?
  3. From the same author: https://github.com/not-an-aardvark/lucky-commit a tool for generating commits with specific shorthashes.
  4. You can do a lot with various whitespace characters, see for example https://github.com/not-an-aardvark/lucky-commit .
  5. …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
  6. Hah, that's clever. The author is using their other toy research tool/project: https://github.com/not-an-aardvark/lucky-commit
  7. https://github.com/not-an-aardvark/lucky-commit