Set file modification times based on Git commits and add said files in alphabetical order to when creating Zips. This ensures Zip files built by CI workflows have checksum hash consistency.

Author: Lethja

.github/workflows/LuaWatcom.yml

@@ -80,10 +80,21 @@ jobs:
       run: |
         lua demo/xtra/PE95TIME.LUA dist/bin/LUANT.EXE
 
+    - name: Set modification time on all repository files to their respective commit
+      run: |
+        git ls-files -z | xargs -0 -I{} touch --date="$(git log -1 --pretty=format:%cI -- {})" {}
+
+    - name: Set modification time on built binaries to the latest commit
+      run: |
+        touch --date="$(git log -1 --pretty=format:%cI)" dist/bin/*.EXE
+
     - name: Create Binaries Zip
       run: |
-        zip -j9 --DOS-names dist/LuaExe.zip dist/bin/*.EXE demo/core/*.LUA demo/xtra/*.LUA
-        mv dist/LuaExe.zip "dist/WLE$(sha256sum dist/LuaExe.zip | awk '{print $1}' | cut -c1-5).zip"
+        files=$(find dist/bin/*.EXE demo/core/*.LUA demo/xtra/*.LUA | sort | xargs)
+        zip -j9 --DOS-names dist/LuaExe.zip $files
+        name="dist/WLE$(sha256sum dist/LuaExe.zip | awk '{print $1}' | cut -c1-5).zip"
+        mv dist/LuaExe.zip $name
+        touch --date="$(git log -1 --pretty=format:%cI)" $name
 
     - name: UPX Binary Compression
       uses: crazy-max/ghaction-upx@v3
@@ -95,6 +106,10 @@ jobs:
           dist/bin/LUA4G.EXE
           dist/bin/LUANT.EXE
 
+    - name: Set modification time on UPX compressed binaries to the latest commit
+      run: |
+        touch --date="$(git log -1 --pretty=format:%cI)" dist/bin/*.EXE          
+
     - name: Create 160k 16-bit DOS Floppy Diskette Image
       run: |
         mformat -C -i dist/Lua160k.ima -v "LUA DOS" -f 160
@@ -107,14 +122,20 @@ jobs:
 
     - name: Create Floppy Disk Images Zip
       run: |
-        zip -j9 --DOS-names dist/LuaIma.zip dist/*.ima
-        mv dist/LuaIma.zip "dist/WLI$(sha256sum dist/LuaIma.zip | awk '{print $1}' | cut -c1-5).zip"
+        files=$(find dist/*ima | sort | xargs)
+        touch --date="$(git log -1 --pretty=format:%cI)" $files
+        zip -j9 --DOS-names dist/LuaIma.zip $files
+        name="dist/WLI$(sha256sum dist/LuaIma.zip | awk '{print $1}' | cut -c1-5).zip"
+        mv dist/LuaIma.zip $name
+        touch --date="$(git log -1 --pretty=format:%cI)" $name
 
     - name: Upload Artifacts
       uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
       with:
-        name: 'LuaBin'
-        path: dist/*.zip
+        name: 'LuaDist'
+        path: |
+          dist/WLE*.zip
+          dist/WLI*.zip
         compression-level: 0
 
   Draft:
@@ -153,9 +174,9 @@ jobs:
 
           formatted_date="${day}${suffix} of ${month} ${year}"
           sed -i "s/{{DATE}}/${formatted_date}/g" .github/workflows/notes.md
-          name="$(ls LuaBin/WLE*.zip | xargs -n 1 basename)"
+          name="$(ls LuaDist/WLE*.zip | xargs -n 1 basename)"
           sed -i "s/{{WLE}}/${name}/g" .github/workflows/notes.md
-          name="$(ls LuaBin/WLI*.zip | xargs -n 1 basename)"
+          name="$(ls LuaDist/WLI*.zip | xargs -n 1 basename)"
           sed -i "s/{{WLI}}/${name}/g" .github/workflows/notes.md
 
       - name: Create Draft Release
@@ -167,4 +188,4 @@ jobs:
             --draft \
             --title "$TAG_NAME" \
             --notes-file .github/workflows/notes.md \
-            "LuaBin/*.zip"
+            "LuaDist/*.zip"