"brian m. carlson" [off-list ref] writes:
I think what I had intended was that Git produces deterministic output,
but I don't actually think that's true across ports. If someone uses a
different version of zlib on a different OS, the output may differ.
I agree. When I wrote my response, I had the "tar" format in mind,
which we write everything ourselves, but zip and also the compressed
output is a different story---we do rely on third-party libraries.
Thanks.