Git and other vcs are generally built on merkle-trees for consistent hashing. There's a list of other common hashing cases on the Wikipedia entry: https://en.w

Git and other vcs are generally built on merkle-trees for consistent hashing. There's a list of other common hashing cases on the Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree#Uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree#Uses