Github archive checksums may change

Came across a blog article from Github about archive checksums changing. It has been rolled back (for now) but will likely be reinstated in the future. How will that impact nixpkg derivations?

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Not much because we unpack the archives and hash the content if fetchFromGitHub is used.

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Similarly, patches (and diffs) fetched from such services also tend to change sometimes; most of those changes are avoided by fetchpatch.

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