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Re:Git archive checksums may change by VWWHFSfQ on Monday January 30, 2023 @05:34PM (#34587498)
At this point they'll be stuck on old git for all of eternity unless they just roll their own archive/compress step out of band so the old hashes still work. Yikes.
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Re:Git archive checksums may change by groestl on Monday January 30, 2023 @06:03PM (#34587910)
They could also brownout the implied contract over a longer timespan.
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Re:Git archive checksums may change by jeffbee on Monday January 30, 2023 @06:32PM (#34588275)
They could use the old behavior for archives in which all the inputs predate the changeover.
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Re:Git archive checksums may change by rfoo on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @05:09AM (#34593368)
New git has a flag for keeping the old behavior, so it's not as bad.
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