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is that sequence numbers are stable references. But not every
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repository in the world will assign the same sequence numbers,
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therefore the SHA-1 is the only universally unique reference.
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The iter method here will generally read through the whole index file
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in one go. With readahead in the kernel and python/libc (typically
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128kB) this means that there should be no seeks and often only one