Re: Include git commit id and git tree id in *.changes files when uploading? [and 1 more messages]
> That .VERSION file is in the upstream git repo:
> https://github.com/smallstep/certificates/blob/v0.29.0/.VERSION
Note that the `$Format:%d$` in this file is because the git repo seems
to be using the export-subst feature in git, so that simply running
`git archive` will have those variables populated.
https://github.com/smallstep/certificates/blob/v0.29.0/.gitattributes
https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/git-man/git-archive.1.en.html#ATTRIBUTES
This is a valid case for the orig tarball to be different from the git tree.
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