Re: [PATCH] xfsprogs: release.sh use git archive for source tarball

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 05:48:05PM -0600, Ben Myers wrote:
> The current method of using 'make dist' to generate source tarballs for a
> release can miss some files depending upon which distro it is running on.  In
> the 3.1.10 release of xfsprogs 'make dist' missed a file 
> 'io/sync_file_range.c'
> because the machine I ran it on didn't HAVE_SYNC_FILE_RANGE.
> 
> Update the release script to use a simple 'git archive' method to create the
> tarball.  This will ensure that all necessary sources are included.

Can we add the git archive code to the makefile so that it's included in
make dist?