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Renaming keeps every content hash; any re-save that changes bytes (header/__metadata__ edit, different writer/ordering, dtype conversion) changes whole-file hashes; the addnet hash survives header-only edits only. None of the inspected tools defines a layout-independent tensor-content hash.\n\nCurator qualifications: hashes.py: calculate_sha256 streams the whole file in 1 MiB blocks; addnet_hash_safetensors seeks to n + 8 (after the header) and hashes the rest; sha256_from_cache returns the cached value unless 'ondisk_mtime > cached_mtime or cached_sha256 is None', cache keyed by title. sd_models.py line 93 'self.shorthash = self.sha256[0:10]'; line 203-213 model_hash docstring 'old hash that only looks at a small part of the file and is prone to collisions', seek(0x100000), read(0x10000), hexdigest()[0:8]. Curator addition: A1111 reuses a cached sha256 for a title unless the file's mtime is newer than the cached mtime, so a file replaced under the same name with an equal or older mtime (e.g. a copy that preserves timestamps) keeps the old hash in A1111's ids and infotext. 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