[gentoo-dev] Re: How to deal with git sources?

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Martin Vaeth wrote:

> Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov <gentoo@×××.name> wrote:
>>
>> GH support answered me (in TL;DR version) "that's because we've
>> upgraded git on *some* of our nodes" (means, some other using older
>> git)

> That would still require that the "git archive" output would have
> changed in some recent git versions. And at least between the most
> current 2.16.2 and comparing with all my git tarballs (some as
> mentioned rather old), I could not produce any difference.
> So I still do not understand what should be going on.

I think the conclusion is that github generates tarballs on the fly,
and therefore we cannot rely on them being invariant over a long time.
They may be susceptible to changes in git, in tar, or in gzip.

Ulrich