Build without Git

[guoyunhe]

For other cores, if Git is not installed in the system (Linux packaging system), they simply skip the step. But this core will throw errors and terminate build.

[RobLoach]

Git is used for source management. Could you install git?

Alternatively, we could start using GitHub Actions to archive the whole source together with git-archive-all or similar.
https://github.com/Kentzo/git-archive-all

[guoyunhe]

I am packaging for openSUSE. Usually I can only submit source tarball from the GitHub releases. Even if Git is installed, it won't get commit history and tags. What I can do now is to mock git history and tags: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/741933#n39

For most Linux distributions, if GitHub releases are available, they won't download whole git repo, which will use a lot more server resources.