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tar-patch skip checksum validation

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by locating the tar-patch option handling and the checksum validation path. Determine how an option to skip validation should be exposed and verified; done means tar-patch can bypass checksum validation when requested without changing its default behavior.

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Description

tar-patch option to skip checksum validation

Dominant language
Go
Stars
66
Forks
27
Avg merge
17h 25m
Merged PRs (30d)
2

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