Instead of calling git-archive HEAD^{tree}, use $(GIT_VERSION)^{tree}. This makes sure the archive name and contents are consistent, if HEAD has moved, but GIT-VERSION-FILE hasn't been regenerated yet. Signed-off-by: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- I have a somewhat odd setup in which I share a .git between multiple checkouts for automated builds. To minimize locking time for parallel builds with different options, there's only a lock around checkout and running git describe $commit > version, the builds themselves run in parallel. This works just fine except during 'make dist', which is hardcoded to package up HEAD, but that's not always the commit that is actually checked out, another process may have checked out something else. I realize this setup is somewhat strange, but the only change necessary to make this work is this one-line patch, so I hope that's acceptable. Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index a53f3a8..63d9bac 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -2433,7 +2433,7 @@ git.spec: git.spec.in GIT-VERSION-FILE GIT_TARNAME = git-$(GIT_VERSION) dist: git.spec git-archive$(X) configure ./git-archive --format=tar \ - --prefix=$(GIT_TARNAME)/ HEAD^{tree} > $(GIT_TARNAME).tar + --prefix=$(GIT_TARNAME)/ $(GIT_VERSION)^{tree} > $(GIT_TARNAME).tar @mkdir -p $(GIT_TARNAME) @cp git.spec configure $(GIT_TARNAME) @echo $(GIT_VERSION) > $(GIT_TARNAME)/version -- 2.0.0-538-ga6b2d95 -- 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