On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 11:36:13PM +0100, Geert Janssens wrote: > Make dist is called all the time by developers to test the creation of a dist > tarball, so the info would get updated more frequently then intended. Or it > would require manual intervention, which brings us back at square one.
I think I was unclear. What I was trying to say was that any changes to (or exclusions of) the sentinel file should occur *only* in the distribution tarball (or whatever); the file in the source tree shouldn't be modified by "make dist".[*] (That might be non-trivial for an in-source-tree build, but you recommend against those anyway.) [*] That's why the source-tree version shouldn't say "I'm from git commit 123abc", but should statically say merely "I'm from git". > Unfortunately it does matter. Github allows you to download any commit as a > tarball. That tarball would also include the sentinel... This, however, does seem to be a showstopper for the idea :-( - Eric _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
