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0 pointsVWWHFSfQ3y ago0 comments

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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rfoo3y ago

New git has a flag for keeping the old behavior, so it's not as bad.

groestl3y ago

They could also brownout the implied contract over a longer timespan.

jeffbee3y ago

They could use the old behavior for archives in which all the inputs predate the changeover.

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