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by Twirrim 1234 days ago
This was a change in the upstream git project, I don't think it came from GitHub necessarily?

Looks like the author is the maintainer of "Git for Windows", and similar, which I can imagine makes for a reasonable argument for reducing dependencies. zlib is already a library dependency, just use that instead of needing people to bundle up a gzip binary along with git, too.

https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.145.git.gitgitgadget@gmail....