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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
kernellogger@fosstodon.org ("Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)") wrote:
"'" Conveniently #git can create a single-file archive of a repository via 'git bundle create' which appears to be the perfect fit for backups. […] I noticed that a small but fixed subset of repositories are getting backed up despite having no changes made. […] Turns out that for some repositories bundling is nondeterministic. […] What caught my eye was Delta compression using up to 8 threads—parallelism is a classic source of inherent nondeterminism. […]"