I found that out, too.

Wasn't the src.tgz not created by Gradle? Was it done by using the git command 
line inside the release wizard?

I used 7zip on Windows to review file contents.

Uwe

Am 28. November 2021 08:29:55 UTC schrieb Dawid Weiss <[email protected]>:
>>
>> I checked the src.tgz file, I was only a bit confused about the
>> "pax_global_header" file, looks as if it contains the commit hash. What's
>> this?
>>
>
>Seems like a file created by git export -
>
>Kernel tar-archives created by git contain an extended header with the git
>commit ID that was used to generate the tar-tree. If your tar is older
>than 1.14 then this extended header will be extracted as a regular file
>called pax_global_header. Patches should never be generated against this
>file, so it should be listed in dontdiff.

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