I was worried about the same thing, but ran build_asf.sh to create a tarball and then built it.
Here's the resulting output, which isn't perfectly nice, but also isn't broken. ke4qqq@mba ~/apache-cloudstack-4.2.0-RC2-src/client/target/META-INF[master*]$ cat MANIFEST.MF Manifest-Version: 1.0 Implementation-Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation Implementation-Title: Apache CloudStack Client UI Implementation-Version: 4.2.0-RC2 Implementation-Revision: UNKNOWN_REVISION Implementation-Vendor-Id: org.apache.cloudstack Built-By: ke4qqq Build-Jdk: 1.7.0_09-icedtea Created-By: Apache Maven 3.0.4 Implementation-Branch: UNKNOWN_BRANCH Archiver-Version: Plexus Archiver --David On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote: > Is it off by default? > > Our releases aren't from git. > > On Jul 11, 2013, at 8:38 PM, Alex Huang <alex.hu...@citrix.com> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I added the branch and git commit id to the war file. You can find it by >> opening the war file and retrieving the META-INF/MANIFEST.MF. Inside, there >> is a Implementation-Revision which contains the git commit id and a >> Implementation-Branch which contains the branch. >> >> We should add these to all of our jira issues so developers can easily >> figure out the revision being tested and work appropriately. >> >> I will also cherry-pick this to 4.2. I assume there's no objections. >> >> --Alex >>