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+Are the instructions for building the [[standalone|install/Linux_standalone]] distribution officially documented somewhere?  Do I understand correctly that this can't be done from the [tarballs on Hackage](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/git-annex), and requires [[checking out the full source tree|install/fromsource]]?  Can `stack` still be used, or does this only work with `cabal`?
+
+Related thread: [[forum/standalone_tarballs_for_specific_versions]].
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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="Ilya_Shlyakhter"
+ avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/1647044369aa7747829c38b9dcc84df0"
+ subject="git pack files"
+ date="2020-07-01T17:32:45Z"
+ content="""
+\"git pack files are designed for fast random access\" -- but also for representing slow-changing source code files; git-annex branch contents seems quite different from the typical source code repo.
+"""]]
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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="Ilya_Shlyakhter"
+ avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/1647044369aa7747829c38b9dcc84df0"
+ subject="comment 4"
+ date="2020-07-01T17:33:49Z"
+ content="""
+Possibly related: [[todo/keep_git-annex_branch_checked_out?]]
+"""]]