Wednesday, 13 April 2022

MD5 hash of file changes after comitting, deleting and fetching from git

If one were to do the following:

def hashmdfive(filename):
    """Generate the md5 checksum."""
    hasher = hashlib.md5()
    with open(filename, "rb") as afile:
        buf = afile.read()
        hasher.update(buf)
    return hasher.hexdigest()
  1. make a file (e.g. test.txt) with some content.
  2. create hash of file by running hashmdfive above.
  3. committing and pushing to a remote git repo
  4. delete local file.
  5. fetching test.txt from remote
  6. create new hash of file by running hashmdfive above.

THE HASHES ARE DIFFERENT. Does anyone know why that is the case?



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