Bug#822427: pristine-tar: should create reproducible deltas

2016-07-17 Thread Tomasz Buchert
On 17/07/16 21:42, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > 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 pristi

Bug#822427: pristine-tar: should create reproducible deltas

2016-07-17 Thread Andreas Beckmann
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 fr

Bug#822427: pristine-tar: should create reproducible deltas

2016-07-17 Thread Tomasz Buchert
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Bug#822427: pristine-tar: should create reproducible deltas

2016-04-24 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: pristine-tar Version: 1.33 Severity: normal Hi, pristine-tar gendelta tarball.tar.gz delta1 pristine-tar gendelta tarball.tar.gz delta2 produces two different deltas, mainly due to different timestamps. It would be great, if pristine-tar could take this into account and create more easi