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> That is, two insecure hashes may be secure together for git's purposes.

Generally that's not true for Merkle–Damgård (e.g. sha1, sha2) hashes - afaik the difficulty of finding a collision in the more difficult hash is the same (up to big-oh) as finding it in both hashes.



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