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-Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:39:48 -0700 (PDT)
-From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
-cc: git@vger.kernel.org
-Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: git checkout -f branch doesn't remove extra files
-Abstract: In this article, Linus talks about building a tarball,
- incremental patch, and ChangeLog, given a base release and two
- rc releases, following the convention of giving the patch from
- the base release and the latest rc, with ChangeLog between the
- last rc and the latest rc.
-
-On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Dave Jones wrote:
->
-> > Git actually has a _lot_ of nifty tools. I didn't realize that people
-> > didn't know about such basic stuff as "git-tar-tree" and "git-ls-files".
->
-> Maybe its because things are moving so fast :) Or maybe I just wasn't
-> paying attention on that day. (I even read the git changes via RSS,
-> so I should have no excuse).
-
-Well, git-tar-tree has been there since late April - it's actually one of
-those really early commands. I'm pretty sure the RSS feed came later ;)
-
-I use it all the time in doing releases, it's a lot faster than creating a
-tar tree by reading the filesystem (even if you don't have to check things
-out). A hidden pearl.
-
-This is my crappy "release-script":
-
- [torvalds@g5 ~]$ cat bin/release-script
- #!/bin/sh
- stable="$1"
- last="$2"
- new="$3"
- echo "# git-tag v$new"
- echo "git-tar-tree v$new linux-$new | gzip -9 > ../linux-$new.tar.gz"
- echo "git-diff-tree -p v$stable v$new | gzip -9 > ../patch-$new.gz"
- echo "git-rev-list --pretty v$new ^v$last > ../ChangeLog-$new"
- echo "git-rev-list --pretty=short v$new ^v$last | git-shortlog > ../ShortLog"
- echo "git-diff-tree -p v$last v$new | git-apply --stat > ../diffstat-$new"
-
-and when I want to do a new kernel release I literally first tag it, and
-then do
-
- release-script 2.6.12 2.6.13-rc6 2.6.13-rc7
-
-and check that things look sane, and then just cut-and-paste the commands.
-
-Yeah, it's stupid.
-
- Linus
-