Re: [PATCH] Support building development version without git

[Miquel G. <mi...@ic...>]

On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 12:18:16 +1200
Henri Menke <hen...@gm...> wrote:

> If I go to the SourceForge project page [1] and just hit the `Download
> Snapshot' button in the upper right corner, I get a zip file with all
> the source but no .git folder and also no timestamp.h.  I suspect there
> is no or at least no easy way to make SourceForge preprocess the source
> when generating a snapshot.
> 

You can use the mtime of any file inside the zip file. 
All them are set to the commit time of the git-hash you hit 'Download Snapshot' for.
Thus "stat -c '%y ' src/Makefile.am" will give the commit date.

For tarballs obtained via "git archive -o snapshot.tar githash" 
all the files in the tarball have the commit-time as mtime.

Miquel