Re: Git revision in tarballs

[Peter Eisentraut]

On 21.07.21 21:12, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:

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.

That does adds Git as a dependency for consuming the tarball though, which
might not be a problem but it's a change from what we require today.

How so?