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by usr1106 745 days ago
I don't like that, it's not good practice.

One should give links to original sources, i.e. https://kernel.org as far as Linux is concerned. Example: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

Even if git guarantees that the content is the same (if someone bothers to verify that the SHA-1 is the same and we exclude the possibility of a SHA-1 collision in git, which is yet to be demonstrated).

kernel.org existed before github.