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Re:Git archive checksums may change by anderskaseorg on Monday January 30, 2023 @06:52PM (#34588508)
Nixpkgs’s fetchFromGitHub function hashes the contents of GitHub archives after unpacking, so it’s unaffected.
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Re:Git archive checksums may change by pxc on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @01:31PM (#34599497)
I should have remembered this! Nixpkgs committers are consistently mindful of things like this in code reviews.
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