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by Denvercoder9 993 days ago
> As a curiosity, what would it entail to make the two tgz byte-for-byte identical ?

It can't be that complicated. The tarballs autogenerated by GitHub (using `git archive`) were byte-for-byte identical for years, until GitHub upgraded git and things broke because entire ecosystems had started to rely on that.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34586917