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* doc/tar.texi: Define reproducibility.

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Sergey Poznyakoff
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@node Reproducibility
@section Making @command{tar} Archives More Reproducible
Sometimes it is important for an archive to be reproducible,
so that one can be easily verify it to have been derived solely from its input.
Sometimes it is important for an archive to be @dfn{reproducible},
so that one can be easily verify it to have been derived solely from
its input. We call an archive reproducible, if an archive
created from the same set of input files with the same command line
options is byte-to-byte equivalent to the original one.
However, two archives created by @GNUTAR{} from two sets of input
files normally might differ even if the input files have the same
contents and @GNUTAR{} was invoked the same way on both sets of input.