Merge branch 'master' into refs/top-bases/debian/locations

[topgit.git] / debian / HOWTO-tg2quilt

diff --git a/debian/HOWTO-tg2quilt b/debian/HOWTO-tg2quilt
index 629a5658de9711b2334b97be2f7db6b24c95c895..b5d47b7664a8416c8276d9476c57183f22a5e1d8 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/HOWTO-tg2quilt
+++ b/debian/HOWTO-tg2quilt
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ this procedure:
 
 7. Building an upstream tarball
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-If you are using pristine-tar, the follopwing can be used to commit an
+If you are using pristine-tar, the following can be used to commit an
 upstream tarball to the repository. It makes sense to rename it according to
 the Debian-standard package_version.orig.tar.gz convention first.
 
@@ -132,13 +132,10 @@ the Debian-standard package_version.orig.tar.gz convention first.
 If upstream does not provide tarballs, you can create the orig.tar.gz file and
 commit is as follows:
 
-1. git checkout topgit-$VERSION
-2. git archive --prefix=$(git describe HEAD)/ --verbose HEAD \
-    | gzip -9 > ../$(git describe HEAD | sed s,-,_,).orig.tar.gz
-3. pristine-tar commit ../$(git describe HEAD | sed s,-,_,).orig.tar.gz \
-    HEAD
-4. git checkout master
-
+1. upstream_tag="topgit-$VERSION"
+2. git archive --prefix="$upstream_tag/" "$upstream_tag" |
+       gzip -9 > ../"${upstream_tag//-/_}.orig.tar.gz"
+3. pristine-tar commit ../"${upstream_tag//-/_}.orig.tar.gz" "$upstream_tag"
 
 
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