Vivien Kraus <vivien@planete-kraus.eu> writes:

> However, there are situations in which you only have access to a
> shallow clone of the git repository (for instance, Gitlab CI). I am not
> sure how this solution would work in that case.

Indeed, good point.  I think 'make dist' should continue to work in
shallow clones, with its obvious consequences (incomplete ChangeLog,
non-deterministic mtime of version controlled files, anything else?).

/Simon