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No but perhaps you can create at git-coin command?

I added three new options

  --difficulty <leading zeroes>

  --prefix <leading digits>

  --hex-prefix <leading hex digis>

Be warned tho, this makes it excessively hard. It takes a long long time.

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What about changing the committer timestamp slightly until you find a match like https://github.com/mattbaker/git-vanity-sha? That would make it entirely invisible

I don't like that. I want time the canonical when something happened, and metadata surfaced explicitly in an appropriate place. Zero fakery, zero bullshit, zero magic. That's what I want.

Wow, that's fast. Do you know if committer's email also goes into calculation of a git hash? If it is, it should be possible to manipulate git hash in a very discrete way through the email address like this: user+<nonce>@example.com

Yes author is hashed i believe.

This already exists btw https://github.com/tochev/git-vanity

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