Re: gtar suggestion

[Paul Eggert]

"Robert J. Camera Jr." <address@hidden> writes:

> Would it be, or is it already possible to guarantee
> that the archive will be the same assuming the archived branch is the same?
> For example, allow directories/files to be archived in alphabetical
> order...?

You can specify the order explicitly now, file by file.  However, I
agree it'd be nicer if 'tar' would sort them for you, even though this
would slow things down a tad in some cases.