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Comment by richbell

> I suspect that the OP may be confused about how git hashes are computed.

I don't think they are. The use of "RNG" is referring to how a "random" commit sha lead to this bug. Commit SHAs are, for all intents and purposes, random.

You could test this against thousands of SHAs and never encounter one that meets the criteria to trigger the bug.

parent richbell 2 years ago

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