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by b112 813 days ago
Archiving an entire git repo is serious overkill, and untenable realistically. Debian has 30k packages, if not more, and some of them are the linux kernel.

My responses in these threads has been to the "why not build from git" logic championed here.

You want to build from a reliable, repeatable source. And as I mentioned, that can be git clone -> tarball, sure.