On 15.07.21 10:33, Magnus Hagander wrote:
I think it'd be useful to be able to identify exactly which git commit was used to produce a tarball. This would be especially useful when downloading snapshot tarballs where that's not entirely clear, but can also be used to verify that the release tarballs matches what's expected (in the extremely rare case that a tarball is rewrapped for example).
Or we could do what git-archive does: Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global extended pax header if the tar format is used; it can be extracted using git get-tar-commit-id. In ZIP files it is stored as a file comment.