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by mikegerwitz 3889 days ago
To provide a little more information: the standard Makefile target for generating tarballs is `dist` (which all GNU projects should implement). For those curious, go take a look at some of your favorite projects that implement this target and see what the resulting tarball may result in, versus the contents of the repository.

https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Standard-T...