On 2016-07-17 20:20, Tomasz Buchert wrote: > Hi Andreas, > why is it useful?
Replaying git actions deterministically (i.e. taking care of authors, committers and timestamps) reproduces the same git history (including hashes), just the pristine-tar branch never matches a previous run. (I do that frequently when importing complicated history into git, and doing this for nvidia-settings(-legacy-*) still on my todo list). Also importing the same tarball twice (under different names) should produce the same delta. In general, reproducibility is a good idea, and pristine-tar is one tool used here - so it would be nice if it worked itself reproducibly. Andreas
