I don't know how stupid this is on a scale from 1 to 10. I've created a wrapper [1] for git (called "shit", for "short git") that converts non-padded revisions to their padded counterpart.

Examples:

"shit show 14" gets converted to "git show 00000140"

"shit log 10..14" translates to "git log 00000100..00000140"

[1]: https://github.com/zegl/extremely-linear/blob/main/shit