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Authored by emaste on Jul 24 2015, 7:01 PM.
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Summary

Ar cannot handle UIDs with more than 6 digits, and there's little value in storing the mtime, uid, gid and mode anyhow. Turn on deterministic (-D) mode by default; it can be disabled by the user with -U.

PR: 196929
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

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Add note of -D default in man page.

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Looks good to me

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jul 24 2015, 8:44 PM
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