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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] storage-fixup: a Makefile
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:18:30 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4920D476.1060101@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200811170343.59740.kel@otaku42.de>

Kel Modderman wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 November 2008 15:28:31 Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Kel Modderman wrote:
>>> +dist: clean
>>> +	git-archive --format=tar --prefix=$(NAME)-$(VERSION)/ HEAD \
>>> +		$(FILES) | tar -C.. -xf -
>>> +	tar -czvf ../$(NAME)-$(VERSION).tar.gz -C.. $(NAME)-$(VERSION)/
>>> +	$(RM) -r ../$(NAME)-$(VERSION)/
>> Why untar and tar again?
>>
> 
> Don't have a reason. This is probably better:
> ---
> dist: clean
> 	git-archive --format=tar --prefix=$(NAME)-$(VERSION)/ HEAD \
> 		$(FILES) | gzip > ../$(NAME)-$(VERSION).tar.gz

Updated to create tarball in the source directory as you never know
you'll have write access to .. && git-archive doesn't mind having extra
files lying around anyway.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

      reply	other threads:[~2008-11-17  2:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-28 23:11 [PATCH 5/5] storage-fixup: a Makefile Kel Modderman
2008-11-12  5:28 ` Tejun Heo
2008-11-16 17:43   ` Kel Modderman
2008-11-17  2:18     ` Tejun Heo [this message]

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