On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:14:18PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > It builds with the right version from the git repository (which runs > > git-describe and sees we are on the v1.7.10.4 tag), but exporting the > > tag's contents and building fails. I suspect that the git-1.7.10.4 > > tarball on kernel.org would also have the same problem. > > It builds correctly if you download the tarball from the official > location in the [ANNOUNCE] message. This is because the build > procedure for the official tarball does a bit more than just running > "git archive-tar", which is what gitweb download interface does > (namely, it adds the correct "version" file). Thanks. I should have checked before responding. If it is just the output of "git archive", and the problem is restricted to one version, then I am not too worried about it. Re-tagging is out of the question, anyway. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html