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

[Ben Myers]

Hey Christoph,

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 08:57:27AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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?

I like that idea.  I'll check it out.

Thanks,
	Ben