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Re:How I Use GitHub Releases for Painless Shipping by knodi123 on Monday October 23, 2017 @11:11AM (#15533746)
> zips/tarballs are generated on-demand and cached

Isn't that a deterministic process? I thought if you zipped the same directory twice, you'd get exactly the same bits in the two archives.

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Re:How I Use GitHub Releases for Painless Shipping by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday October 23, 2017 @11:33AM (#15533910)
Probably a timestamp. They're surprisingly pervasive.
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