Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] build: add make dist target (v2)

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

On 07/17/12 21:12, Michael Roth wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 01:33:32PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> Let's stop screwing up releases by having a script do the work that Anthony's
>> fat fingers can't seem to get right.
>>
>> Cc: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
> 
> Breaks if there's no tag corresponding with the contents of VERSION,
> but that might be considered a feature (an alternative might be to
> assume it's a development release, use current HEAD for master, and append the
> short git hash to the version). Works well as far as I can tell though,
> and I made a special point to confirm it did indeed output a bz2 :)

Or just use 'git describe --long' to figure what the version is.  This
way you can easily build a tarball for any git commit, and a release
tarball is just 'git checkout v$version; make dist'.

cheers,
  Gerd