On 02/21/2011 11:13 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky(a)redhat.com> writes:
> On 02/16/2011 04:58 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> That does not mean that the compressed contents will always be the same.
>
> $ git clone -q
git://github.com/sonatype/sisu
$ GIT_DIR=sisu/.git git archive --prefix="sonatype-sisu-1.4.3.2/" --format=tar
sisu-1.4.3.2 | gzip > tarball1.tar.gz
$ GIT_DIR=sisu/.git git archive --prefix="sonatype-sisu-1.4.3.2/" --format=tar
sisu-1.4.3.2 | gzip > tarball2.tar.gz
$ md5sum tarball*
94101d5c44539875f09db8487b900abc tarball1.tar.gz
e87037cc65b3ff602675b84a23548299 tarball2.tar.gz
q.e.d.
FWIW, s/gzip/gzip -n/ and they'll match.