Re: Stability of git-archive, breaking (?) the Github universe, and a possible solution

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 1, 2023, 12:42 UTC
Message-ID: <230201.86lelhr1wv.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Y9jlWYLzZ/yy4NqD@tapette.crustytoothpaste.net>

On Tue, Jan 31 2023, brian m. carlson wrote:

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> Since then, I've been very opposed to us guaranteeing output format
> consistency without explicitly doing so.  I had sent some patches before
> that I don't think ever got picked up that documented this explicitly.
> I very much don't want people to come to rely on our behaviour unless we
> explicitly guarantee it.

FWIW I think the reason that didn't get picked up (I went back and read the discussion) is that there was some feedback on the v1, [1] suggested (at least to me) that you'd re-roll it, but that re-roll never seems to have made it to the list.

1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/YD7aDwX%2FaiRN0GZs@camp.crustytoothpaste.net/