Re: [PATCH] make dist: allow using an installed version of git

On do, 2016-09-01 at 10:43 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Dennis Kaarsemaker [off-list ref] writes:

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b1de9de2 back in 2005 ensured that we could create a tarball with 'make
dist' even if git wasn't installed yet. These days however, chances are
higher that a git version is available. Add a config.mak knob to allow
people to choose to use the installed version of git to create the
tarball and avoid the overhead of building git-archive.

Thanks, but not interested.

Pity. Would save me quite a bit of tarball build time.

We do not know what vintage of "git" happens to be installed on the
platform, but we know how "git archive" we ship with the source
ought to behave.

That's why I didn't want to make it the default, but merely make it an
available option for saving some build time for people who know their
git is up-to-date enough.

D.