Sept. 20, 2016
5:23 p.m.
On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
This is not quite the same as a distribution tarball, though, as it omits automatically-generated files (e.g., 'leapseconds', 'version') and it contains a file that is not distributed ('.gitignore').
You may want to start using Github "release" feature to host semi-official tar-balls: https://help.github.com/articles/creating-releases/