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 [[_revision_selection]]
 === Revision Selection
 
-Git allows you to refer to a set of commits or a range of commits in several ways.
+Git allows you to refer to a single commit, set of commits, or range of commits in a number of ways.
 They aren't necessarily obvious but are helpful to know.
 
 ==== Single Revisions
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 Generally, eight to ten characters are more than enough to be unique within a project.
-For example, as of June 2018, the Linux kernel (which is a fairly sizable project) has over 700,000 commits and almost six and a half million objects in its object database, with no two objects whose SHA-1s are identical in the first 11 characters.
+For example, as of February 2019, the Linux kernel (which is a fairly sizable project) has over 875,000 commits and almost seven million objects in its object database, with no two objects whose SHA-1s are identical in the first 12 characters.
 
 [NOTE]
 .A SHORT NOTE ABOUT SHA-1