Make release tarballs friendlier to older tar versions

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 2a1e6392dddeac520b90e5bccfb841f58018f858..28517f4c3f01ee3b854439033f7143763a8f62cf 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ git.spec: git.spec.in
 
 GIT_TARNAME=git-$(GIT_VERSION)
 dist: git.spec git-tar-tree
-       ./git-tar-tree HEAD $(GIT_TARNAME) > $(GIT_TARNAME).tar
+       ./git-tar-tree HEAD^{tree} $(GIT_TARNAME) > $(GIT_TARNAME).tar
        @mkdir -p $(GIT_TARNAME)
        @cp git.spec $(GIT_TARNAME)
        @echo $(GIT_VERSION) > $(GIT_TARNAME)/version