Git commit with hash `0000000`
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Git commit with hash `0000000`
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Re: Git commit with hash `0000000`
#2I just stumbled across this commit and couldn't believe my eyes, thought it may be interesting to some of you as well.
EDIT: Looking further into it, it looks like there's almost two thousand commits on github starting with this exact hash: https://github.com/search?q=hash%3A0000000&type=commits&p=1
Re: Git commit with hash `0000000`
#3That's not the full hash of course. The complete hash is 000000007dac9715520764e334380ae8ab26d598.
There's a reason Git doesn't simply use CRC32 or the like.
Re: Git commit with hash `0000000`
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Re: Git commit with hash `0000000`
#5The probability of this happening at random is around 1 in 250 million (if you care that the hash prefix is all zeroes, versus just all the same character: 1 in 4 billion).
Github has officially announced that they have over 100 million active users, and over 400 million repositories.
At Github's scale this is a common event; on the order of monthly.
Re: Git commit with hash `0000000`
#6Wow that's shiny pokemon odds!
Re: Git commit with hash `0000000`
#7https://github.com/not-an-aardvark/lucky-commit and others have shown up to engineer (read: brute-force) these early hash digits
Re: Git commit with hash `0000000`
#8The most zeroes at the start is 14, and there's only one commit with that many zeroes, which is https://github.com/seungwonpark/ghudegy-chain/commit/0000000....
Re: Git commit with hash `0000000`
#9The most zeroes at the start is 14, and there's only one commit with that many zeroes, which is https://github.com/seungwonpark/ghudegy-chain/commit/0000000... .
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Re: Git commit with hash `0000000`
#10The most zeroes at the start is 14, and there's only one commit with that many zeroes, which is https://github.com/seungwonpark/ghudegy-chain/commit/0000000... .
The Nth commit there has N leading zeroes