From 6de11792013cd087897fd7c2a7519fd26211b105 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dirk Engling <erdgeist@erdgeist.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2026 02:19:22 +0100
Subject: Carry the version into the tarball

---
 .gitignore |  2 ++
 Makefile   | 17 +++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5a9567f..df288e0 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -10,3 +10,5 @@ tests/runner
 tests/runner.poll
 tests/runner.sanitize
 .buildstamp
+.tarball-version
+opentracker-*.tar.gz
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 45c0f29..a4fe92f 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ FEATURES+=-DWANT_FULLSCRAPE
 #FEATURES+=-D_DEBUG_RANDOMTORRENTS
 
 VERSION=1.0.0
-GIT_VERSION=`sh -c 'command -v git >/dev/null && test -d .git && git describe --tags --match "v*" --always --dirty 2>/dev/null'`
++GIT_VERSION=`sh -c 'test -r .tarball-version && read v < .tarball-version && echo "$$v" || { command -v git >/dev/null && test -d .git && git describe --tags --match "v*" --always --dirty 2>/dev/null; }'`
 
 OPTS_debug=-D_DEBUG -g -ggdb # -pg -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage
 OPTS_production=-O3
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ check-all:
 	$(MAKE) check-integration
 	$(MAKE) check-tsan
 
-.PHONY: all FORCE check check-poll check-sanitize check-integration check-tsan check-all clean install
+.PHONY: all FORCE dist check check-poll check-sanitize check-integration check-tsan check-all clean install
 
 BINARIES=opentracker opentracker.debug opentracker.integration opentracker.tsan proxy proxy.debug $(TESTBIN) $(TESTBIN).sanitize $(TESTBIN).poll
 
@@ -181,3 +181,16 @@ clean:
 
 install:
 	install -m 755 opentracker $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)
+
+# Roll a release: tag it v<something>, then make dist. The commit is written
+# into the tarball, so a build from it reports the same version this checkout
+# would, without a git to ask. The tarball is HEAD by construction, so the
+# working tree it was rolled from does not enter into the version.
+DISTNAME=opentracker-$(VERSION)
+
+dist:
+	rm -rf $(DISTNAME) $(DISTNAME).tar.gz
+	git archive --format=tar --prefix=$(DISTNAME)/ HEAD | tar -xf -
+	git describe --tags --match "v*" --always > $(DISTNAME)/.tarball-version
+	tar -czf $(DISTNAME).tar.gz $(DISTNAME)
+	rm -rf $(DISTNAME)
-- 
cgit v1.3