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Re:Git archive checksums may change by skobovm on Monday January 30, 2023 @07:21PM (#34588885)
Woof. At the rate packages get updated these days, and the amount of dependencies between them, that just isn't sustainable for any reasonably-sized project in server and -- especially -- frontend land.
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Re:Git archive checksums may change by DoctorNick on Monday January 30, 2023 @07:47PM (#34589163)
Exactly. Unless the package manager has a mechanism for doing that, good fucking luck updating any of your packages ever again.
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Re:Git archive checksums may change by viraptor on Monday January 30, 2023 @10:03PM (#34590320)
It is implemented pretty well in a few languages. For ruby for example it's almost trivial to maintain a `vendor` directory that matches the current `Gemfile` and `Gemfile.lock`. The size changes without LFS mean that's a bad idea, but... you can do it.
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