Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.8] git: Add metadata to the result of `git archive`

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> CC: George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> CC: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>
> CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 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
> 

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