Documentation/howto/make-dist.txt

   1 Date:   Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:39:48 -0700 (PDT)
   2 From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
   3 To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
   4 cc: git@vger.kernel.org
   5 Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: git checkout -f branch doesn't remove extra files
   6
   7 On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Dave Jones wrote:
   8 >
   9 >  > Git actually has a _lot_ of nifty tools. I didn't realize that people
  10 >  > didn't know about such basic stuff as "git-tar-tree" and "git-ls-files".
  11 >
  12 > Maybe its because things are moving so fast :)  Or maybe I just wasn't
  13 > paying attention on that day. (I even read the git changes via RSS,
  14 > so I should have no excuse).
  15
  16 Well, git-tar-tree has been there since late April - it's actually one of
  17 those really early commands. I'm pretty sure the RSS feed came later ;)
  18
  19 I use it all the time in doing releases, it's a lot faster than creating a
  20 tar tree by reading the filesystem (even if you don't have to check things
  21 out). A hidden pearl.
  22
  23 This is my crappy "release-script":
  24
  25         [torvalds@g5 ~]$ cat bin/release-script
  26         #!/bin/sh
  27         stable="$1"
  28         last="$2"
  29         new="$3"
  30         echo "# git-tag-script v$new"
  31         echo "git-tar-tree v$new linux-$new | gzip -9 > ../linux-$new.tar.gz"
  32         echo "git-diff-tree -p v$stable v$new | gzip -9 > ../patch-$new.gz"
  33         echo "git-rev-list --pretty v$new ^v$last > ../ChangeLog-$new"
  34         echo "git-rev-list --pretty=short v$new ^v$last | git-shortlog > ../ShortLog"
  35         echo "git-diff-tree -p v$last v$new | git-apply --stat > ../diffstat-$new"
  36
  37 and when I want to do a new kernel release I literally first tag it, and
  38 then do
  39
  40         release-script 2.6.12 2.6.13-rc6 2.6.13-rc7
  41
  42 and check that things look sane, and then just cut-and-paste the commands.
  43
  44 Yeah, it's stupid.
  45
  46                 Linus
  47