On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 05:57:57PM +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote: > When building Xen from a source tarball, commit information is usually lost, > especially if the tarball was generated from a tag. > > Have `git archive` automatically fill in metadata at the point of creating the > archive, which is especially useful when using web snapshot links such as: > > http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz > > to obtain the tarball. > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com> > --- > CC: George Dunlap <george.dun...@eu.citrix.com> > CC: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com> > CC: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> > CC: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com> > CC: Stefano Stabellini <sstabell...@kernel.org> > CC: Tim Deegan <t...@xen.org> > CC: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com> > > It would be useful if this could be included in 4.8, and backported to older > releases (Assuming noone has any objections) Inclusion in 4.8 - fine by me. I will pick it up at some point. > --- > .gitarchive-info | 2 ++ > .gitattributes | 1 + > 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 .gitarchive-info > create mode 100644 .gitattributes > > diff --git a/.gitarchive-info b/.gitarchive-info > new file mode 100644 > index 0000000..83e5b86 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/.gitarchive-info > @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ > +Changeset: $Format:%H$ > +Commit date: $Format:%cD$ > diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes > new file mode 100644 > index 0000000..f7bf506 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/.gitattributes > @@ -0,0 +1 @@ > +.gitarchive-info export-subst > -- > 2.1.4 > _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
