Re: make dist using git archive

On Sun Feb 11, 2024 at 5:09 PM CST, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Small update: I noticed that on Windows (at least the one that is
> running the CI job), I need to use git -c core.autocrlf=false, otherwise
> git archive does line-ending conversion for the files it puts into the
> archive. With this fix, all the archives produced by all the CI jobs
> across the different platforms match, except the .tar.gz archive from
> the Linux job, which I suspect suffers from an old git version. We
> should get the Linux images updated to a newer Debian version soon
> anyway, so I think that issue will go away.

I think with this change, it is unlikely I will be able to upstream
anything to Meson that would benefit Postgres here since setting this
option seems project dependent.

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Tristan Partin
Neon (https://neon.tech)