# [PATCH] Make release tarballs friendlier to older tar versions

1 messages from 2006-06-18 to 2006-06-18. Participants: Rene Scharfe.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/4557

## Rene Scharfe, 2006-06-18 13:25

Subject: [PATCH] Make release tarballs friendlier to older tar versions
Message-ID: <20060618132533.GA31005@lsrfire.ath.cx>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20060618132533.GA31005%40lsrfire.ath.cx

```
git-tar-tree adds an extended pax header to archives if its first
parameter points to a commit.  It confuses older tars and isn't
very useful in the case of git anyway, so stop doing it.

Idea: Junio, implementation: Junio.  I just wrote it up. :-)

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 2a1e639..28517f4 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ git.spec: git.spec.in
 
 GIT_TARNAME=git-$(GIT_VERSION)
 dist: git.spec git-tar-tree
-	./git-tar-tree HEAD $(GIT_TARNAME) > $(GIT_TARNAME).tar
+	./git-tar-tree HEAD^{tree} $(GIT_TARNAME) > $(GIT_TARNAME).tar
 	@mkdir -p $(GIT_TARNAME)
 	@cp git.spec $(GIT_TARNAME)
 	@echo $(GIT_VERSION) > $(GIT_TARNAME)/version

```