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I think this is perhaps not the case. HEADs move. People contribute code. Sure, if you take a snapshot of every git repo you will ever use today and never move past those commits, this attack doesn't help. Obviously nobody will do that. People, potentially malicious people, will continue to contribute commits which they could have collided with one that does something different. I'd think that using commit hashes as a security mechanism will soon be dead.



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