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by victorNicollet 3399 days ago
This is exactly what euyyn is saying: create two files with the same SHA1 (by adding bytes of gibberish to an unused section), commit one to the repository, and now you have an collision available.
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That's not how git uses hashes. In that scenario, there would still be a diff and hence git would recognize the files were different.