Re: Git revision in tarballs

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.