From: Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2023 12:21:52 GMT
Subject: Re: Stability of git-archive, breaking (?) the Github universe, and a possible solution
Message-ID: <20230201122152.GJ19419@kitsune.suse.cz>
In-Reply-To: <CANgJU+V0QRFwmTh8ZzY=28kmbUw=DvSLE24LioOXp6_ozq+RdA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 12:34:06PM +0100, demerphq wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Feb 2023 at 11:26, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> > That would be going above & beyond what's needed IMO, but still a lot
> > easier than the daunting task of writing a specification that exactly
> > described GNU gzip's current behavior, to the point where you could
> > clean-room implement it and be guaranteed byte-for-byte compatibility.
> 
> Why does it have to be gzip? It is not that hard to come up with a
historical reasons?