hello,
multiple people in Arch Linux noticed the output of our `git archive`
command doesn't match the tarball served by github anymore.
First I suspected an update in our gzip package until I found this line
in the git 2.38.0 release notes:
> * Teach "git archive" to (optionally and then by default) avoid
> spawning an external "gzip" process when creating ".tar.gz" (and
> ".tgz") archives.
I've then found this commit that could be considered a breaking change
in `git archive`:
https://github.com/git/git/commit/4f4be00d302bc52d0d9d5a3d4738bb525066c710
I don't know if there's some kind of gzip standard that could be used to
align the git internal gzip implementation with gnu gzip.
I'm not saying this is necessarily a bug or regression but it makes it
harder to reproduce github tar balls from a git repository. Just sharing
what I've debugged. :)
cheers,
kpcyrd
