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		VWWHFSfQ on Jan 30, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Git archive checksums may change I'm fairly certain that Homebrew doesn't function without GitHub. The index (and Cargo's index, and probably others) is hard-coded to be hosted on GitHub.

denom on Jan 31, 2023 [–]

Exactly this.

Tbh, i would expect some developer working on this feature to have an ‘a-ha’ moment: ‘I’m a homebrew user … hey wait a minute’

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