Hello, When tar (e.g. tar-1.26) creates an archive of a directory, the ordering of files (as shown by "ls -f") is preserved in the archive.
I would like an option to make this ordering constant (e.g. alphanumeric), in order that two directories that compare equal (with "diff -r") would produce the same archive (provided of course that appropriate --mtime, --owner, --group and --mode options are also set to the same values). This would be another step in the make-your-tar-archive-anonymous direction. Regards, Denis Excoffier. Note. "diff -r" is not the better tool for directory comparison since symbolic links are always traversed. But you get the picture.
