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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] x86/efi: Allow invocation of arbitrary runtime
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Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 08:51:08 -0800
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On Tue, 2016-11-22 at 16:40 +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> 
> > Umm, no, that's not correct.
> > SHA-1 lengths of 12 are unique for quite awhile yet.
> > 
> > https://blog.cuviper.com/2013/11/10/how-short-can-git-abbreviate/
> 
> The article says:
> 
> 	1.9% at 12
> 
> which is for 3253824 objects (I get 1.86%).
> 
> However, that was three years ago, and we now have over five million objects,
> so the collision possibility is 4.5% now.
> 
> If we add another 2 million over the next three years, then the probability
> will be over 8% then.
> 
> I've attached my spreadsheet for you to have a look at.
> 
> > No.  Use --format=email as appropriate instead.
> 
> Fix checkpatch.  This is an entirely reasonable supposition.

No.  There's nothing to fix there IMO.
Of course you are welcome to submit patches.