"brian m. carlson" <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I think what I had intended was that Git produces deterministic output, > but I don't actually think that's true across ports. If someone uses a > different version of zlib on a different OS, the output may differ. I agree. When I wrote my response, I had the "tar" format in mind, which we write everything ourselves, but zip and also the compressed output is a different story---we do rely on third-party libraries. Thanks.