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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: bug#28745: [PATCH] tarballs generated on github are generated on
	demand (leading to different hash sums)
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 12:48:04 +0200
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To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: bug#28745 <28745-done@debbugs.gnu.org>, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>


Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Unfortunately, it=E2=80=99s become commonplace to publish nothing else th=
an a
> Git tag.  Now, in those cases, we could also use =E2=80=98git-fetch=E2=80=
=99, which
> wouldn=E2=80=99t be affected by problems with generated tarballs.
>
> Thoughts?

For a couple of packages I=E2=80=99ve already started using git-fetch with =
the
tag (instead of the commit hash).  I think that=E2=80=99s preferable over u=
sing
auto-generated tarballs.

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Ricardo

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