> 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