On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 11:48:45AM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > In practice I think clone, checkout, reset etc. always work in the same > order you see with `git ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD`, but as far as I > know this has never been guaranteed or documented, and shouldn't be > relied on. I think this paragraph is correct in general (and I agree with the sentiment that this is subject to change in future versions). There is one concrete case I know that has non-deterministic order in current versions: long-lived clean/smudge filters can defer their response. The LFS filter uses this to tell Git "no, I'm still downloading the content", at which point Git will proceed with checking out other local files (or even other LFS files that happen to arrive sooner). Depending on what one wants to do with the determinism, it may be OK to ignore that case. ;) -Peff
