[PATCH] Use gzip -f when building the git-core tarball

This allows rebuilding the tarball when it is already present
without having to answer annoying questions from gzip

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 34a54a8..cf162a9 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ dist: git-core.spec git-tar-tree
        @cp git-core.spec $(GIT_TARNAME)
        tar rf $(GIT_TARNAME).tar $(GIT_TARNAME)/git-core.spec
        @rm -rf $(GIT_TARNAME)
-       gzip -9 $(GIT_TARNAME).tar
+       gzip -f -9 $(GIT_TARNAME).tar
 
 rpm: dist
        $(RPMBUILD) -ta git-core-$(GIT_VERSION).tar.gz