uv author: metadata-free lockfiles still detect stale resolutions
charliermarsh · x · 2026-09-24
Replying to a question about the purpose of lockfile metadata, uv's author explained it was used to detect whether the lockfile needed re-resolution by comparing recorded tables against changed input dependencies — and that after removing it, the same behavior was re-implemented using the lockfile alone, which was quite hard to get right.
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