On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 10:54:25AM +0000, Wei Liu wrote: > 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. >
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