Re: Incorrect v1.7.10.4 tag on github?

From: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 2, 2012, 21:11 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP2yMaLy3sBwybMH2LYs9Sg0AigZ-_tAx4SbHOrwr3T6GfLSaw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v7gulzxme.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hey,

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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>> 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 )
>
>> 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.

Thanks for letting me know - I didn't realize that the built tarballs were different from the tagged commit trees. I will update the links.

Scott