Question. busybox mirror and busybox.net latest snapshot to be exactly the same exit .git?

Perhaps someone with more knowledge of GIT can explain.

I download the latest snapshot files, which currently shows 4 
different ones.

Currently get
2669360 Mar 31 10:20 busybox-20260331.tar.bz2
2669851 Apr 13 10:20 busybox-20260413.tar.bz2
2668517 Apr 30 10:20 busybox-20260430.tar.bz2
2669862 May  1 10:20 busybox-20260501.tar.bz2

Generally compare the last two using this script to compare them.
compbz.sh busybox-20260430.tar.bz2 busybox-20260501.tar.bz2

#!/bin/bash
clear
if [ "$EUID" -ne 0 ] ; then
    echo -e 'Need to be root user';exit 1
fi
mkdir -p a
tar -xf $1 -C a
mkdir -p b
tar -xf $2 -C b
sleep 10
clear
echo diff of $1 and $2
diff -r a b >diff1
diff -rpuN a b >diff2
diff -ruN a b | diffstat >diffstat
cat diff1 diff2 diffstat | grep -v "\---$" |more

That produces files showing the difference between 430 and 501
1708 May  1 20:54 diff1
3901 May  1 20:54 diff2
 265 May  1 20:54 diffstat

Now do a clone of the busybox_mirror in another directory.
git clone https://github.com/vda-linux/busybox_mirror
rename busybox_mirror to busybox
and remove the .git directory, since it only is in the mirror directory 
and not in the snapshot??

That produces these similar files.
 0 May  1 21:06 diff1-5-1-mirrorb
 0 May  1 21:06 diff2-5-1-mirrorb
17 May  1 21:06 diffstat-5-1-mirrorb

cat diffstat-5-1-mirrorb
 0 files changed
So, whould appear to me that they are pretty much identical??

So changes to the busybox.net and the mirror seem to be the same?
So, someone seems to have control of both busybox.net snapshot 
and the mirror site??

I'm not a user of GIT, other than git pull and git clone, so I may be 
totally off on this. 
If so, please point out the error in my comparisons. 

Thank You.

Final point. 
Build a busybox using the 0501 snapshot and one from mirror
501128 May  1 21:31 busybox-0501
501128 May  1 21:32 busybox-mirror

cmp -l busybox-0501 busybox-mirror 
   809  24 135
   810 324 165
   811  17  46
   812  23 106
   813 302  21
   814 304 351
   815 152 355
   816 376 373
   817 247  26
   818 274  50
   819 232 217
   820 161 345
   821  47 125
   822  17 154
   823  42  32
   824  45  70
   825 104 320
   826 335  24
   827 354 310
   828 156 271
479040  60  62
479042  65  61
479043  71  64

Seems to just be the timestamp differences?

Thanks for your time?

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