From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 21:00:57 GMT
Subject: Re: Incorrect v1.7.10.4 tag on github?
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In-Reply-To: <CAPBPrnspD3uC6_wd7nqMUVgHSt4Frwy8UaYL6fU73kJKX6=XWQ@mail.gmail.com>

Dan Johnson <computerdruid@gmail.com> writes:

> Junio,
> I just noticed that the download buttons (for tarballs) on gitscm.com
> all point to the github tag list ( https://github.com/git/git/tags )
> instead of the location pointed to by your [ANNOUNCE] message (
> http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list )

Thanks for noticing, but what GitHub does is outside my control.
Luckily I see Peff is in the loop so this will hopefully be resolved
shortly ;-).

> If you do something special as part of releasing these tarballs, is
> this something that should be corrected?

I do not do anything special other than "make dist", but obviously
anybody's "list of tags" that drive "git archive" won't run it, so
it is a wrong thing to point at, regardless of who hosts it.