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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: 0s | source
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hoistbypetard ◴[31 Oct 25 14:45 UTC] No.45772532[source]▶
My instant reaction was: "Wait?! They weren't immutable before?"

I'm glad they're doing this, and it's an unpleasant surprise that they didn't already work this way. I don't understand why they allow mutable releases.

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edflsafoiewq ◴[31 Oct 25 16:36 UTC] No.45773953[source]▶
Mutable releases are used for continuous/nightly builds.
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1. jsiepkes ◴[31 Oct 25 19:47 UTC] No.45775962[source]▶
In Java with Maven these have a special suffix, "-SNAPSHOT". So "1.0.0-SNAPSHOT". Releases, like "1.0.0" are immutable once released. I always thought that was a pretty sane model.