Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.8] git: Add metadata to the result of `git archive`

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 03.11.16 at 18:57, <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When building Xen from a source tarball, commit information is usually lost,
> especially if the tarball was generated from a tag.
> 
> Have `git archive` automatically fill in metadata at the point of creating the
> archive, which is especially useful when using web snapshot links such as:
> 
>   http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz 
> 
> to obtain the tarball.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>


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