[re-adding the list] On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 01:25:02PM +0800, Jiatong Shen wrote: Yes, if your goal is to create a release archive for libvirt 6.0.0 with some patches on top[1] then the best way to go about it is to clone the repo, branch off the v6.0.0 tag, cherry-pick the changes you're interested in and then generate the archive using 'make distcheck'. [1] You could have told us this in the first place instead of asking a more generic question for which a different answer was more appropriate ;) -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization