From: Thomas Glanzmann Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 07:02:16 GMT Subject: Re: Commit ID in exported Tar Ball Message-ID: <20070521070216.GF23350@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> In-Reply-To: <74FC1AD6-199E-4A01-BB9F-AD030659AE29@silverinsanity.com> Hello Brian, > dist: > git archive HEAD > dist.tar > git describe HEAD > version-file > tar rf dist.tar version-file > gzip dist.tar to be precise that was my first idea when I started the whole discussion. But I like the patch from Rene much more than that. Because I want to use it with gitweb and it is definitevly easier to use realize that with Renes patch. Thomas