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From: Tom Lord <lord@emf.net>
To: pasky@ucw.cz
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hash collision count
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:50:31 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200504252350.QAA02241@emf.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050423234637.GS13222@pasky.ji.cz> (message from Petr Baudis on Sun, 24 Apr 2005 01:46:37 +0200)


  From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>

  Pasky:

  > No, a collision is pretty common thing, actually. It's the main power of
  > git, actually - when you do read-tree, modify it and do write-tree
  > (typically when doing commit), everything you didn't modify (99% of
  > stuff, most likely) is basically a collision - but it's ok since it
  > just stays the same.

That is not the way people ordinarily use the word "collision".
It's pretty much the opposite of the normal way, actually.

-t

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-25 23:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-23 20:27 Hash collision count Jeff Garzik
2005-04-23 20:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-04-23 23:00 ` Ray Heasman
2005-04-23 23:20   ` Jeff Garzik
2005-04-23 23:46     ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-24  0:35       ` Jeff Garzik
2005-04-24  0:40         ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-24  0:43           ` Jeff Garzik
2005-04-24 21:24             ` Imre Simon
2005-04-24 22:25               ` Whales falling on houses - was: " Jon Seymour
2005-04-25 23:50       ` Tom Lord [this message]
2005-04-26  0:00         ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-24  1:01     ` Ray Heasman
2005-04-24  7:56 ` David Lang
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-04-24 23:16 linux

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