On 2023-02-02 at 16:34:44, Junio C Hamano wrote: > There shouldn't be cross platform differences to break bit-for-bit > stability at least for "tar" format, as we do not rely on any > external library. Can we say the same for "zip"? I thought we > throw the blob at git_deflate_*() so the exact bitstream is up to > the libz implementation? That's also true. There, we can't use gzip, so we do whatever libz does. For Zip, I believe we embed a local timestamp, so the output is also dependent on the time zone. I don't know enough about the Zip format to say if there are any other things that may vary. -- brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them) Toronto, Ontario, CA
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