Same commit, different dependency trees: the vocabulary answer is lockfiles, the practitioner answer includes frozen installs, integrity hashes and pinned toolchains.
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Two engineers run the same build and get different dependency trees. Where do lockfiles fit in fixing this?
Same commit, different dependency trees: the vocabulary answer is lockfiles, the practitioner answer includes frozen installs, integrity hashes and pinned toolchains.
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