diff -r 910ec3471d55 Lib/tarfile.py
--- a/Lib/tarfile.py	Tue Jul 02 09:06:54 2013 -0400
+++ b/Lib/tarfile.py	Thu Jun 18 13:21:19 2015 +0100
@@ -1930,7 +1930,7 @@
         elif tarinfo.isdir():
             self.addfile(tarinfo)
             if recursive:
-                for f in os.listdir(name):
+                for f in sorted(os.listdir(name)):
                     self.add(os.path.join(name, f), os.path.join(arcname, f),
                             recursive, exclude, filter=filter)