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Immutable releases are now generally available on GitHub

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151 points fastest963 | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 13:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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eviks ◴[31 Oct 25 15:10 UTC] No.45772876[source]▶
Why is deletion not allowed, which supply chain attacks work by deleting a release, not changing it to a malicious one?
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yjftsjthsd-h ◴[31 Oct 25 15:36 UTC] No.45773264[source]▶
I assume they're doing the trivial workaround to prevent renaming by way of delete and recreate?
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1. eviks ◴[31 Oct 25 16:04 UTC] No.45773623[source]▶
Then you'd ban the recreation part?