From: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 10:27:23 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: README: recommend zstd over xz
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README: recommend zstd over xz

git archive automatically uses gzip when --output=*.tar.gz is used, but
not for other extensions. Thus we need to invoke the compressor separately :(

It's a good pattern to use a variable for the repeating number, so let's
recommend that.
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diff --git a/README b/README
index 60b7aae930b..f75fb9d5a52 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ REQUIREMENTS:
           DESTDIR=... meson install -C build/
 
         A tarball can be created with:
-          git archive --format=tar --prefix=systemd-222/ v222 | xz > systemd-222.tar.xz
+          v=250 && git archive --prefix=systemd-$v/ v$v | zstd >systemd-$v.tar.zstd
 
         When systemd-hostnamed is used, it is strongly recommended to
         install nss-myhostname to ensure that, in a world of