Re: [Gnu-arch-users] using sha1 as explicit id

[Aaron Bentley]

Colin Walters wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering - why not just use a SHA1 hash as the file identity for
> explicit IDs?  That way if two people independently import the same
> version of a project into arch, they would be able to apply patches from
> one another, etc.

But if you have two files with the same contents, won't you get 
duplicate IDs?

Aaron