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cryptographically unique

Git uses SHA1 which is pretty far from cryptographically secure. It’s unlikely that’s the sole reason for having a separate checksum database though.

Doing some searching around online, it seems like git introduced sha256 support several years ago.

Only for some local operations- git protocol still uses SHA-1 for compatibility with old clients, and existing SHA-1 objects in old repositories aren't converted.

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