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Re: Git archive checksums may change

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GitHub will need to revert this change. They've just crippled pretty much every "from source" package manager out there.

I prefer that tool be adapted to be more resilient and not depend on github particular implementation.

Using SHA hashes when building guarantees that the code that you are building is what you think it is. How else would you verify dependencies like this, GPG signatures would have the same issue if you change the underlying bits.
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