From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:35:04 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Optimize creation of orig.tar.gz a bit
X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ian/git?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a9e10b44a67400a4539abb7c969852c42dfd6d67;p=topgit.git

Optimize creation of orig.tar.gz a bit

Checking out the tag isn't necessary.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
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diff --git a/debian/HOWTO-tg2quilt b/debian/HOWTO-tg2quilt
index f3078b6..b5d47b7 100644
--- a/debian/HOWTO-tg2quilt
+++ b/debian/HOWTO-tg2quilt
@@ -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"
 
 
 All comments and suggestions are welcome, especially those pertaining to