git tag -u "${GIT_GPG_KEY}" -m "This is the $RELEASE stable release" v$RELEASE
# build release materials, tarball, base patch, incr patch, changelog
-git-tar-tree HEAD linux-${RELEASE} | gzip -9 > ${RELDIR}/linux-${RELEASE}.tar.gz
+git-archive --format=tar --prefix=linux-${RELEASE}/ HEAD | gzip -9 > ${RELDIR}/linux-${RELEASE}.tar.gz
git-diff-tree -p v${BASE} HEAD | gzip -9 > ${RELDIR}/patch-${RELEASE}.gz
git-diff-tree -p v${LAST_REL} HEAD | gzip -9 > ${RELDIR}/patch-${LAST_REL}-${REL}.gz
zcat ${RELDIR}/patch-${LAST_REL}-${REL}.gz | diffstat -p1 > ${RELDIR}/diffstat-${LAST_REL}-${REL} 2>/dev/null