[PATCH] Make release tarballs friendlier to older tar versions
From: Rene Scharfe <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:30
Subsystem:
kernel build + files below scripts/ (unless maintained elsewhere), the rest · Maintainers:
Nathan Chancellor, Nicolas Schier, Linus Torvalds
git-tar-tree adds an extended pax header to archives if its first parameter points to a commit. It confuses older tars and isn't very useful in the case of git anyway, so stop doing it. Idea: Junio, implementation: Junio. I just wrote it up. :-) Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <redacted>
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 2a1e639..28517f4 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile@@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ git.spec: git.spec.in GIT_TARNAME=git-$(GIT_VERSION) dist: git.spec git-tar-tree - ./git-tar-tree HEAD $(GIT_TARNAME) > $(GIT_TARNAME).tar + ./git-tar-tree HEAD^{tree} $(GIT_TARNAME) > $(GIT_TARNAME).tar @mkdir -p $(GIT_TARNAME) @cp git.spec $(GIT_TARNAME) @echo $(GIT_VERSION) > $(GIT_TARNAME)/version