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Re:Git archive generation meets Hyrum's law by 0xjnml on Friday February 03, 2023 @03:41AM (#34638780)
From the language specification: "The iteration order over maps is not specified and is not guaranteed to be the same from one iteration to the next."

There's a long shot between "not specified" and "uniformly random".

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Re:Git archive generation meets Hyrum's law by pwdisswordfishc on Friday February 03, 2023 @03:47AM (#34638819)
The joke is that the sort of people who rely on apparent behaviour in practice isn’t the sort that tends to look things up in specifications.
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