Re: Tarball builds in the new world order

On 2024-Apr-26, Tom Lane wrote:

> --- 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

Why is it that the .gitrevision file is only created here, instead of
being added to the tarball that "git archive" produces?  Adding an
argument like
    --add-virtual-file $(distdir)/.gitrevision:$(GIT_REFSPEC)

to the git archive call should suffice.

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