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Noah Slater commented on COUCHDB-1618:
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I have made a tweak so that the `git` invocation will fail gracefully.
                
> Fix THANKS bodge
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>                 Key: COUCHDB-1618
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1618
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Noah Slater
>            Assignee: Noah Slater
>
> The THANKS rules are a bodge and need to be fixed.
> Additionally, attempting to build a distribution from a distribution will fail because there is no Git directory.
> This also means that THANKS.gz is not rebuilt properly.
> For now, until this is fixed, all distributions should be prepared from a pristine source.
> The proper way to do this is to build this file during the bootstrap.

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