1Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:39:48 -0700 (PDT) 2From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 3To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> 4cc: git@vger.kernel.org 5Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: git checkout -f branch doesn't remove extra files 6Abstract: In this article, Linus talks about building a tarball, 7 incremental patch, and ChangeLog, given a base release and two 8 rc releases, following the convention of giving the patch from 9 the base release and the latest rc, with ChangeLog between the 10 last rc and the latest rc. 11 12On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Dave Jones wrote: 13> 14> > Git actually has a _lot_ of nifty tools. I didn't realize that people 15> > didn't know about such basic stuff as "git-tar-tree" and "git-ls-files". 16> 17> Maybe its because things are moving so fast :) Or maybe I just wasn't 18> paying attention on that day. (I even read the git changes via RSS, 19> so I should have no excuse). 20 21Well, git-tar-tree has been there since late April - it's actually one of 22those really early commands. I'm pretty sure the RSS feed came later ;) 23 24I use it all the time in doing releases, it's a lot faster than creating a 25tar tree by reading the filesystem (even if you don't have to check things 26out). A hidden pearl. 27 28This is my crappy "release-script": 29 30 [torvalds@g5 ~]$ cat bin/release-script 31 #!/bin/sh 32 stable="$1" 33 last="$2" 34 new="$3" 35 echo "# git-tag v$new" 36 echo "git-tar-tree v$new linux-$new | gzip -9 > ../linux-$new.tar.gz" 37 echo "git-diff-tree -p v$stable v$new | gzip -9 > ../patch-$new.gz" 38 echo "git-rev-list --pretty v$new ^v$last > ../ChangeLog-$new" 39 echo "git-rev-list --pretty=short v$new ^v$last | git-shortlog > ../ShortLog" 40 echo "git-diff-tree -p v$last v$new | git-apply --stat > ../diffstat-$new" 41 42and when I want to do a new kernel release I literally first tag it, and 43then do 44 45 release-script 2.6.12 2.6.13-rc6 2.6.13-rc7 46 47and check that things look sane, and then just cut-and-paste the commands. 48 49Yeah, it's stupid. 50 51 Linus 52