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Cook: Colliding with the SHA prefix of Linux's initial Git commit


This is not yet in the upstream Linux tree, for fear of breaking countless other tools out in the wild. But it can serve as a test commit for those that want to get this fixed ahead of any future collisions (or this commit actually landing).

[Posted December 30, 2024 by corbet]

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