From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:17:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Incorrect v1.7.10.4 tag on github?
Message-ID: <20120615191723.GA26651@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vvcis9ylx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:14:18PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > It builds with the right version from the git repository (which runs
> > git-describe and sees we are on the v1.7.10.4 tag), but exporting the
> > tag's contents and building fails. I suspect that the git-1.7.10.4
> > tarball on kernel.org would also have the same problem.
> 
> It builds correctly if you download the tarball from the official
> location in the [ANNOUNCE] message.  This is because the build
> procedure for the official tarball does a bit more than just running
> "git archive-tar", which is what gitweb download interface does
> (namely, it adds the correct "version" file).

Thanks. I should have checked before responding. If it is just the
output of "git archive", and the problem is restricted to one version,
then I am not too worried about it. Re-tagging is out of the question,
anyway.

-Peff