[PATCH] Use gzip -f when building the git-core tarball

Eric W. Biederman· Jul 15, 2005, 01:20 UTC · lore

This allows rebuilding the tarball when it is already present without having to answer annoying questions from gzip

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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 Makefile |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

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diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ dist: git-core.spec git-tar-tree
 	@cp git-core.spec $(GIT_TARNAME)
 	tar rf $(GIT_TARNAME).tar $(GIT_TARNAME)/git-core.spec
 	@rm -rf $(GIT_TARNAME)
-	gzip -9 $(GIT_TARNAME).tar
+	gzip -f -9 $(GIT_TARNAME).tar
 
 rpm: dist
 	$(RPMBUILD) -ta git-core-$(GIT_VERSION).tar.gz

patchUse gzip -f when building the git-core tarball