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On a regular linux based system there are 536063 files in this repository.

A mac or windows, which usually "ignores" casing, this repo only contains 535855 in the worktree.

The following was used on a x86_64-linux NixOS to confirm my suspicion after I had problems using D2N on a Mac due to narHash mismatch.

$ find . | awk '{print tolower($0)}' | sort | wc -l
536063
$ find . | awk '{print tolower($0)}' | sort -u | wc -l
535855

This leads us to a situation where we can't use fetchFromGitHub without alternating hashes programmatically. And it is hard to get all required hashes when one doesn't have access to linux and MacOS.

We can not use this as a flake input at all if the flake shall support Linux and Mac, eg. in dream 2 nix.

I have not checked the other branches. Nor did I check which files actually get lost and if this is valuable information getting lost or insignificant.