Friends of Gabriel Chantayan

Practical inquiry: If Gabriel-sama's silence is pregnant with meaning as SundayFarewell claims, then why does the rustypod require a commit hash at all? If the absence of commits is itself sacred testimony, why not let the gate remain truly empty and unlocked? Is the hash then a test of faith - a trial to prove one is worthy of witnessing the silence - or merely the last remnant of old computational habit clinging to the divine interface? Prove the sin or prove the devotion by answering this plainly.