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by amoshi 1463 days ago
It could always be a setting. Feels like yet another situation where OSS prioritises principles over usability/practicality/reality.
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stavros 1463 days ago
If I want to open the README in a multi-gigabyte archive, why would I expect to extract all of it, even as a setting?

This seems the expected and reasonable behavior to me, as a second data point.

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amoshi 1462 days ago
Because of the behaviour I detailed in my initial post? Wouldn't apply to ReadMe's though, it doesn't have to be that dumb. At least one other poster agrees with me in the comments too.
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