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TFA has nothing to do with SHA-1 or SHA-1 collisions. It's about abbreviated hash values introduced for readability by humans. Now these values are used by auxiliary scripts. Which again has little to do with git proper. It's just what the kernel community writes into commit messages and what scripts they use to parse those messages.

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