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Re:Git archive checksums may change by metrognome on Monday January 30, 2023 @05:16PM (#34587262)
Per the post, this was a change to git itself: https://github.com/git/git/commit/4f4be00d302bc52d0d9d5a3d47...
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Re:Git archive checksums may change by forgotpwd16 on Monday January 30, 2023 @05:35PM (#34587515)
What was the thought behind this change?
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Re:Git archive checksums may change by georgyo on Monday January 30, 2023 @06:00PM (#34587880)
If you read the commit message you would see that it is up drop a third party dependency.
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Re:Git archive checksums may change by forgotpwd16 on Monday January 30, 2023 @07:45PM (#34589144)
Yeah, read that. Just don't understand, if git already had an internal gzip implementation, why wasn't it used since it was added?
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Re:Git archive checksums may change by ilyt on Monday January 30, 2023 @10:40PM (#34590612)
Because not everyone refactors whole codebase after adding one function that might be useful somewhere else.

I'd imagine motivation for this change in particular is multiplatform use, not every platform just have gzip in path.

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Re:Git archive checksums may change by fweimer on Monday January 30, 2023 @05:21PM (#34587323)
They could just produce tar output and compress that using system gzip. The “git archive” tool supports many output formats.
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