From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2021 18:03:39 GMT Subject: Re: force deterministic trees on git push - exact sort-order of filenames Message-ID: In-Reply-To: milan hauth writes: > fact: the sort-order of filenames in a tree is not strictly regulated Untrue, sorry. The rule is "a tree entry that describes a tree object sorts as if its pathname component has a trailing slash '/'". All your sample trees should satisify that rule (or the implementation of Git that created such a tree is broken). In hindsight, if we used the collation order that puts '/' before all other bytes when sorting the index entries and the tree entries, it would have made a lot of implemenentation details clean and easier to work with, but that would have been feasible in early 2005, and not now.