Re: source tarballs vs. source from git
On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 08:28:28PM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed 12 Jun 2024 at 03:45pm +01, Simon McVittie wrote:
>
> > As far as I know, git-archive (and therefore git-deborig) doesn't guarantee
> > that repeatedly archiving the same git tree produces the same tarball,
> > which could be awkward for the ftp archive's tarball-integrity-based rules;
> > but hopefully tag2upload would insulate individual developers from that by
> > always "doing the right thing" for the current contents of the archive?
>
> Just to note quickly that yes, it does.
A given version of git does. It's not guaranteed that a newer version of git
won't produce something different (such a change happened recently-ish).
Mike
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