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Re: Tarball builds in the new world order

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Date: 2024-04-29T12:39:57Z
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On 26.04.24 21:24, Tom Lane wrote:
> Concretely, I'm proposing the attached.  Peter didn't like
> PG_COMMIT_HASH, so I have PG_COMMIT_REFSPEC below, but I'm not
> wedded to that if a better name is proposed.

Um, "refspec" leads me here 
<https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-The-Refspec>, which seems 
like the wrong concept.  I think the more correct concept is "revision" 
(https://git-scm.com/docs/gitrevisions), so something like PG_GIT_REVISION?

Commits

  1. Allow selecting the git revision to be packaged by "make dist".