From 9dce3c0617ce7065eec53e8e3bb68c571f7d6ee5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:20:50 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] [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>
---
 Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 34a54a8633..cf162a9dae 100644
--- 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