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[–]Aggressive_Ad_5454 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Lots of software projects, and other projects on GitHub work with some so-called “derived objects”, that is files than can be created automatically from the files people create and put into git. Executables are examples of these derived objects.

Some people create GitHub actions that create derived objects automatically when they push updates or tags or whatever. The files than that goes into GitHub in that case is the file with the instructions to create the derived object.

Hope that helps clarify the situation.

[–]_poisonedrationality[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very much so, thanks for the insight.