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Convert 160-bit to integer

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I am using SHA1 so i want to convert the output of this SHA1 to integer

Best Answer

How about

echo preg_replace("/[^0-9]/i", "", sha1("apikot"));

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Git – Where does Git store the SHA1 of the commit for a submodule

It is stored in Git's object database directly. The tree object for the directory where the submodule lives will have an entry for the submodule's commit (this is the so-called "gitlink").

Try doing git ls-tree master <path-to-directory-containing-submodule> (or just git ls-tree master if the submodule lives in the top-level directory).

Git – How much of a git sha is generally considered necessary to uniquely identify a change in a given codebase

This question is actually answered in Chapter 7 of the Pro Git book:

Generally, eight to ten characters are more than enough to be unique within a project. One of the largest Git projects, the Linux kernel, is beginning to need 12 characters out of the possible 40 to stay unique.

7 digits are the Git default for a short SHA, so that's fine for most projects. The Kernel team has increased theirs several times, as mentioned because they have several hundred thousand commits. So for your ~30k commits, 8 or 10 digits should be perfectly fine.

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