Re: [Bug-tar] Re: creating identical .tar.gz files for use with version control

[Chris Pickett]

Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
> > Note that, apart from anything the tar command is doing, the "gzip"
> > records the current date/time inside the .gz file. 
>
> Good point; I wonder if bzip2 or lzma would
> avoid this problem?  I don't think either
> of them records the current time.

Yes, bzip2 works too, i.e. tar cvfj a.tar.gz a/ is great.

Chris