Concretely, I'm proposing the attached. Peter didn't like
PG_COMMIT_HASH, so I have PG_COMMIT_REFSPEC below, but I'm not
wedded to that if a better name is proposed.
regards, tom lane
diff --git a/GNUmakefile.in b/GNUmakefile.in
index 30553b2a95..27357e5e3b 100644
--- a/GNUmakefile.in
+++ b/GNUmakefile.in
@@ -102,10 +102,18 @@ distdir-location:
# on, Unix machines.
$(distdir).tar.gz:
- $(GIT) -C $(srcdir) -c core.autocrlf=false archive --format tar.gz -9 --prefix $(distdir)/ HEAD -o $(abs_top_builddir)/$@
+ifneq ($(PG_COMMIT_REFSPEC),)
+ $(GIT) -C $(srcdir) -c core.autocrlf=false archive --format tar.gz -9 --prefix $(distdir)/ $(PG_COMMIT_REFSPEC) -o $(abs_top_builddir)/$@
+else
+ @echo "Please specify PG_COMMIT_REFSPEC." && exit 1
+endif
$(distdir).tar.bz2:
- $(GIT) -C $(srcdir) -c core.autocrlf=false -c tar.tar.bz2.command='$(BZIP2) -c' archive --format tar.bz2 --prefix $(distdir)/ HEAD -o $(abs_top_builddir)/$@
+ifneq ($(PG_COMMIT_REFSPEC),)
+ $(GIT) -C $(srcdir) -c core.autocrlf=false -c tar.tar.bz2.command='$(BZIP2) -c' archive --format tar.bz2 --prefix $(distdir)/ $(PG_COMMIT_REFSPEC) -o $(abs_top_builddir)/$@
+else
+ @echo "Please specify PG_COMMIT_REFSPEC." && exit 1
+endif
distcheck: dist
rm -rf $(dummy)
--- mk-one-release.orig 2024-04-23 17:30:08.983226671 -0400
+++ mk-one-release 2024-04-26 15:17:29.713669677 -0400
@@ -39,13 +39,17 @@ mkdir pgsql
git archive ${gitref} | tar xf - -C pgsql
# Include the git ref in the output tarballs
+# (This has no effect with v17 and up; instead we rely on "git archive"
+# to include the commit hash in the tar header)
echo ${gitref} >pgsql/.gitrevision
cd pgsql
./configure
# Produce .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 files
-make dist
+# (With v17 and up, this will repeat the "git archive" call; the contents
+# of the working directory don't matter directly to the results.)
+make dist PG_COMMIT_REFSPEC=${gitref}
# Generate md5 and sha256 sums, and copy files to output
for x in *.tar.*; do
