Re: Stability of git-archive, breaking (?) the Github universe, and a possible solution
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brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
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- Feb 1, 2023, 23:18 UTC
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On 2023-02-01 at 12:42:54, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
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> > On Tue, Jan 31 2023, brian m. carlson wrote: > > > Since then, I've been very opposed to us guaranteeing output format > > consistency without explicitly doing so. I had sent some patches before > > that I don't think ever got picked up that documented this explicitly. > > I very much don't want people to come to rely on our behaviour unless we > > explicitly guarantee it. > > FWIW I think the reason that didn't get picked up (I went back and read > the discussion) is that there was some feedback on the v1, [1] suggested > (at least to me) that you'd re-roll it, but that re-roll never seems to > have made it to the list.
That may very well have been the case. As mentioned upthread, I have very limited time to work on Git these days, and sometimes things just fall through the cracks.
-- brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them) Toronto, Ontario, CA