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For a long time, there was one legitimately annoying disadvantage to the git-generated tarballs though - they lost tagging information. However, since git 2.32
by o11c 3y ago
For a long time, there was one legitimately annoying disadvantage to the git-generated tarballs though - they lost tagging information. However, since git 2.32 (released June 2021; presumably available on GitHub by August 2021 when they blogged about it) you can use `$Format:%(describe)$` ... limited to once per repository for performance reasons.
- rany_ 3y agoExcept this change was made in 2023, it is just scary how good this threat actor was.
- legobmw99 3y agoI believe they also do not include sub modules, which is a big disadvantage for some projects
- xvilka 3y agoYes. Also, GitHub recently made some upgrades that forced checksum changes on the autogenerated archives: https://github.blog/changelog/2023-01-30-git-archive-checksums-may-change/ https://github.blog/changelog/2023-01-30-git-archive-checksu...