How to disambiguate an ambiguous abbreviated sha1 in git

Question

I was intrigued by Josh Stone\'s analysis of sha1 abbreviation collisions.

Let\'s say somebody wrote down an abbreviated commit id, 8b82547e33, at a tim

Answer 1

You can use git rev-parse, assuming you have at least a 4-digit prefix of the full hash.

git rev-parse --disambiguate=8b82547e33