Git archive generation meets Hyrum's law

Posted Feb 3, 2023 16:32 UTC (Fri) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)
In reply to: Git archive generation meets Hyrum's law by farnz
Parent article: Git archive generation meets Hyrum's law

That’s a consequence of github making dumb release archives a second class choice, not the choice of people doing releases.

The ligua franca of release management is dumb archives, because devs like to move from svn to hg to git to whatever, or even not source control bulky binary files (images, fonts, music, whatever) so anything semi-generic will curl archives from a list of urls. And if github only provides reliably (for dubious values of reliably) generated archives that’s what people will use.