diff --git a/docs/easybuild-v5/enhancements.md b/docs/easybuild-v5/enhancements.md index f4908e3ed..4c5be7c85 100644 --- a/docs/easybuild-v5/enhancements.md +++ b/docs/easybuild-v5/enhancements.md @@ -30,11 +30,11 @@ status codes are reported in the corresponding logs. ## Reproducible tarballs { : #reproducible_tarballs} EasyBuild can now generate reproducible tarballs of sources cloned from Git -repositories. This means that the contents of sources obtained by cloning Git -repositories will be consistent across different systems and across time, -allowing to reliably validate those sources with checksums. EasyBuild follows -the [archival guidelines from reproducible-builds.org](https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/archives/) -to generate reproducible tarballs. +repositories. This means that those sources using the `git_config` option will +now have consistent contents across different systems and across time, allowing +to reliably validate them with checksums. EasyBuild follows the +[archival guidelines from reproducible-builds.org](https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/archives/) +to generate those reproducible tarballs. This new feature does not apply to sources cloned with `keep_git_dir` enabled. Including the `.git` folder in the sources is inherently time-dependent as it