[CentOS] Checksums for git repo content?

[Leonard den Ottolander]

On Thu, 2017-02-09 at 14:12 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> The patch files are in git as text files, right?  Why would you need
> checksums of those? That is the purpose of git, right?

Checksums are there to make sure that you get what you are supposed to
get. That is also true for text files. (A source tarball is just a bunch
of text files in an archive.)

Having checksums for all files (like in a SRPM) is a guarantee and saves
the user the trouble to have to hand check them. So yes, checksums for
patch files and spec files would be appreciated and useful.

Regards,
Leonard.

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