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v0.14.0 Latest @github-actions github-actions released this 4 hours ago v0.14.0 d140136 Changelog

6902e47 Accept PURLs as package arguments in more commandse0f105e Add Hugo doc generator for website command referencef36345c Add dependency chain example to resolve docs01fbdac Add external plugin support800edd6 Add resolve command for dependency graph output5b4ec8c Add resolve documentationd23e780 Add urls command to show registry URLs for a packaged27cd7e Add usage examples to resolve docs6159f43 Bump github.com/go-git/go-git/v5 from 5.16.4 to 5.16.578a5648 Bump internal module deps to latest tags9cb16ea Default resolve output to tree format, add -f json flagf1d436f Fix diff not pairing version changes for duplicate packagese2d24b0 Fix plugin discovery and execution on Windows2d8adcf Optimize indexer performance: cache eviction, parallel flushes, fast PURL constructionc3e7eab Parse resolve output into normalized JSON with PURLs4270c62 Update Go module dependencies

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Release v0.14.0 · git-pkgs/git-pkgs

The user is asking about the release assets for v0.14.0. They see what looks like two binaries for each platform. Let me look at the assets:

git-pkgs_0.14.0_darwin_amd64.tar.gz
git-pkgs_0.14.0_darwin_arm64.tar.gz
git-pkgs_0.14.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz
git-pkgs_0.14.0_linux_arm64.tar.gz
git-pkgs_0.14.0_windows_amd64.tar.gz
git-pkgs_0.14.0_windows_arm64.tar.gz

So there are actually six binaries total—two processor architectures (amd64 for Intel/AMD chips and arm64 for ARM-based processors like Apple Silicon) across three operating systems. This is pretty standard for Go projects that support multiple platforms.

There aren't two of each - there are two architectures per operating system:

amd64 — Intel/AMD x86-64 chips
arm64 — ARM chips (Apple Silicon, AWS Graviton, Snapdragon, etc.)

So it's 3 OSes × 2 architectures = 6 binaries. Standard cross-compilation matrix for a Go project.

Yeah, Go makes it easy to cross-compile for all those targets so you might as well ship them all.

amd and arm read so similar

They really do. Doesn't help that they're both followed by "64" either. One of those naming choices that made sense to engineers and no one else.

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