On 21/04/2025 21:40, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Yuck. I somehow thought that CI jobs are always using a git
checkout, not tarball extract (after all, that is what
actions/checkout implies to me X-<).
That's what I'd assumed as well, I was quite surprised when I realized
the "checkout" action was actually unpacking a tarball
Best Wishes
Phillip
Of course it is good to
automatically ensure that our tarball extracts are buildable, but
the way tarballs are built upon release is probably different from
how these tarballs are made automatically (*), so in that sense not
building from a repository but building from "git archive" extract
is not doing anybody a service.
[Footnote]
* "make dist" is how a release tarball is built for this project,
not "git archive dist.tar HEAD".
