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| author | Robin Gareus <robin@gareus.org> | 2017-04-22 16:04:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Robin Gareus <robin@gareus.org> | 2017-04-22 16:04:35 +0200 |
| commit | 51f184e1a2aa6b2d176d85ab219b782eaec2ddfb (patch) | |
| tree | 6e6f9b5f9ea172bb8b8230350bd939d89d1f11c1 | |
| parent | 0cb95a869b1d5f3117e1d44c9f3fa3d3279222ab (diff) | |
Add a Readme pertaining to GH release tarballs
| -rw-r--r-- | .gitattributes | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README-GITHUB.txt | 12 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes index 52f4931ee4..09eb9eef27 100644 --- a/.gitattributes +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -1 +1,2 @@ /* export-ignore +/README-GITHUB.txt -export-ignore diff --git a/README-GITHUB.txt b/README-GITHUB.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c24aa98669 --- /dev/null +++ b/README-GITHUB.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Github release tarballs are not supported by Ardour +=================================================== + +This information applies to bundles automatically generated by +https://github.com/Ardour/ardour/releases + +Ardour's program version is maintained using git-tags. Compiling Ardour depends +on `git describe` (a full git clone is needed for this) or alternatively a +version-file in the release-dist. Github cannot provide the latter and also +does not allow to inject a version-file during export archiving. + +For further information see http://tracker.ardour.org/view.php?id=7328 |