> I tried to prepare a script that under the proposed rules create a tarball for > module from the active folder. In the script is solved searching for last tag > in current branch. Besides, are added checks if the current tree corresponds > to the state on the server. And it is also added support for the creation of > the final tarballs, when the number of commits since the last tag is zero. > > Please, test it. If it proved to be useful, script could be added into the git > scripts. Looks pretty good. May I suggest the following changes: --- create_tarball 2012-11-14 20:09:47.000000000 -0600 +++ create_tarball.new 2012-11-14 19:57:58.000000000 -0600 @@ -2,6 +2,14 @@ TARGET=14.0.0 +# When $SUFFIX = true then the package tarball name will be $package-trinity. +# When $SUFFIX != true then the package tarball name will be trinity-$package. +# Choose the option that satisfies any distro package name rules. +SUFFIX=${SUFFIX:-"true"} + +#When $TARBALL_DIR = "" then the tarball will be created in the parent directory (..). +TARBALL_DIR=${TARBALL_DIR:-""} + if [[ ! -e .git ]] || [[ -z "`git rev-parse --git-dir 2>/dev/null`" ]]; then echo "This script can only be run from a top level git directory. Exiting..." @@ -34,11 +42,21 @@ count=`git log $tag --pretty=oneline | wc -l` -package=$(basename $PWD)-trinity-$TARGET +if [ "$SUFFIX" = "true" ]; then + package=$(basename $PWD)-trinity-$TARGET +else + package=trinity-$(basename $PWD)-$TARGET +fi if [[ "$count" -gt 0 ]]; then package=$package~pre$count+$(git rev-parse HEAD | cut -c 1-8) fi +echo "Package name: $package" + +if [ "$TARBALL_DIR" = "" ]; then + TARBALL_DIR=".." +fi +echo "Creating tarball in $TARBALL_DIR." tar cv --exclude .git --exclude .gitmodules --transform "s|^\.|$package|" ./ | \ -xz -9 >../$package.tar.xz +xz -9 >$TARBALL_DIR/$package.tar.xz Is the tilde (~) in the text string "~pre" a Debian convention? Darrell