gitbrute(1)

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🌈 gitbrute(1) 🌈

okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for gitbrute — she's a little command-line bestie from the General Commands Manual. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

gitbrute — brute-force a git commit hash to a given prefix. no cap. 💖

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

gitbrute -prefix deadbeef

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so here's the tea: gitbrute amends the top commit in a git repository, altering commit-time and author-time so that the commit's hash starts with the given prefix. literally it's giving hash-makeover. ✨

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

  • -prefix 000000 — specifies the hash prefix to search for. obviously, the expected time required to find it grows exponentially with the prefix's length. so like, longer prefix = longer wait, and it's exponential, bestie. 😭
  • -force true — if the current commit already matches the prefix, it will be replaced by another one. so yes, it swaps it out even if it's already cute. 💅
  • -cpus 64 — specifies the level of parallelism; defaults to the number of online processors at startup. parallelism go brrr. 🔥

and that's the whole page, periodt. 🫶 this came from the General Commands Manual, manual version gitbrute(1), dated 2019-04-06. bye bestie 💖

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