[issue24465] Make tar files created by shutil.make_archive() have deterministic sorting

Changes by Sam Thursfield sam.thursfi...@codethink.co.uk: -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file39728/tarfile-stable-ordering.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue24465

[issue24465] Make tar files created by shutil.make_archive() have deterministic sorting

New submission from Sam Thursfield: I want shutil.make_archive() to produce deterministic output when given identical data as inputs. Right now there are two holes in this. One is that mtimes might not match. This can be fixed by the caller. The second is that the order that files in a