[PATCH] xfsprogs: release.sh use git archive for source tarball
Christoph Hellwig
hch at infradead.org
Wed Dec 19 07:57:27 CST 2012
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?
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