[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="http://peter-simons.myopenid.com/"
 ip="84.189.2.244"
 subject="Please provide stable tarballs or zipfiles"
 date="2011-03-22T13:06:58Z"
 content="""
I'm trying to package git annex for ArchLinux and NixOS. That task would be a *lot* easier, if there were proper release archives available for download. The Gitweb site offers to create snapshot tarballs on the fly, but those tarballs have a different SHA hash every time they're generated, so they cannot be used for the purposes of a distribution. A simple solution for this problem would be to enable snapshots in zip format (because zip files look the same every time they're generated).
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