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Re:Git archive checksums may change by ZephyrBlu on Monday January 30, 2023 @06:54PM (#34588545)
You just described >90% of users. Everyone does this for something, most people do it for most things.

You minimally read the docs, get something working and then leave it alone. Of course you're going to be pissed off when an implicit assumption which has been stable for a long time is broken.

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Re:Git archive checksums may change by grepfru_it on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @02:45AM (#34592457)
>Of course you're going to be pissed off when an implicit assumption which has been stable for a long time is broken.

This accurately describes my beef with golang

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Re:Git archive checksums may change by missingdays on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @03:31AM (#34592727)
Yes, but if you implement the checksum algorithm for GitHub archives, shouldn't you read the documentation about archives checksum?
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Re:Git archive checksums may change by JonChesterfield on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @06:40AM (#34593912)
Turns out scripts contain download an archive from github and check against a hardcoded checksum copy&pasted into that script. All of those broke. None of the authors will have looked up exactly how github had calculated said checksum.
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