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by crote 1235 days ago
The trick here is that a Github release is in essence simply a tag of a specific commit. There is no need to build archives in advance, as they can be dynamically generated from the git repo.

However, if you change the compression algorithm used to generate the archive, it'll result in a different checksum! The content is the same, but the archive is not.