hanno on Nostr: Pretty much everyone develops code using Git these days, or some other SCM (some ...
Pretty much everyone develops code using Git these days, or some other SCM (some don't, there's this mail server, but I disgress). But people distribute code in tarballs. How does a Git repo become a tarball? The answer may disturb you. It's basically "every dev has some process, maybe some script, maybe some commands they remember". Nothing is reproducible, nothing is verifiable.
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