Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > ... Reverting the change > gives the misleading impression that we're making a commitment to > keeping the output stable. The focus of this thread seems to be the > problems relating to github which they have already addressed. > > I think there is general agreement that it is not practical to promise > that the compressed output of "git archive" is stable so maybe it is > better to make that clear now while users can work around it in the > short term with a config setting rather than waiting until we're faced > with some security or other issue that forces a change to the output > which users cannot work around so easily. I love to see somebody else play the devil's advocate role. Thanks for all of the above.
