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by RulerOf 1284 days ago
I see this a lot and it really rubs me the wrong way, but it makes a lot of sense from a usability standpoint.

I started pointing directly at the full commit SHA of the version I want to use when pointing dependencies at Github repos, as I have some naïve belief that it'll offer me a reasonable level of protection from the malicious takeover of a repo.