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VWWHFSfQ
3y ago
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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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groestl
3y ago
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They could also brownout the implied contract over a longer timespan.
jeffbee
3y ago
They could use the old behavior for archives in which all the inputs predate the changeover.
rfoo
3y ago
New git has a flag for keeping the old behavior, so it's not as bad.
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