In my opinion as the original developer of pristine-tar, it's too complicated to be usefully used by git. The problem it solves is of a larger scope than the problem git has here. (I hope.) Developing pristine-tar did entail much investigation of past changes in compressor outputs. I know that gzip's output has sometimes not been deterministic as recently as 2012, see for example https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/commit/?id=0a284baeaedca68017f46d2646e4 -- see shy jo
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