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That won't help you very much. There's no guarantee the commit belongs to the named repository with e.g. raw links[0].

Of course it will, since you'll either get the commit you wanted at the time you wrote the script, or an error.

Unless someone is very good at finding SHA1 collisions.

The collisions need to deliver malicious payload as well, making it extra hard

Those are still very hard to get for a random hash, and GitHub I think warns (or blocks?) you if you try to push a hash with a known vulnerability.

If you clone the repo, it won't be there.