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

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>]

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.cooper3@citrix.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
> 
> > ---
> > CC: George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
> > CC: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
> > CC: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
> > CC: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
> > CC: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
> > CC: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
> > CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@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.
> 

Applied.

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