Re: Git revision in tarballs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 21.07.21 21:12, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> Or we could do what git-archive does:
>>
>>     Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global extended
>>     pax header if the tar format is used; it can be extracted using git
>>     get-tar-commit-id. In ZIP files it is stored as
>>     a file comment.
> 
> That does adds Git as a dependency for consuming the tarball though, which
> might not be a problem but it's a change from what we require today.

How so?