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		forgotpwd16 on Jan 31, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Git archive checksums may change Yeah, read that. Just don't understand, if git already had an internal gzip implementation, why wasn't it used since it was added?

ilyt on Jan 31, 2023 [–]

Because not everyone refactors whole codebase after adding one function that might be useful somewhere else.

I'd imagine motivation for this change in particular is multiplatform use, not every platform just have gzip in path.

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