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Andreas Schwab schwab at redhat.com
Mon Feb 21 09:13:29 UTC 2011


Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky at 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.

>> At least the gzip compressed tarballs from github contain a time stamp.
                ^^^^

> True, but git-archive doesn't do that by default.

I didn't say anything about git-archive.

Andreas.

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