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by Drup 1623 days ago
I would encourage you not to use DOIs for software. They are not made for this, and have limitations which are not appropriate.

Instead, use Software Heritage https://www.softwareheritage.org/ , it provides unique identifiers and actually understand repositories, versioning, history, etc. It also allows you to cite the software and even give proper, durable links to point to the code.

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Why not just link to a specific commit hash? What more do they provide?