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diff --git a/Documentation/howto/make-dist.txt b/Documentation/howto/make-dist.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 00e330b293..0000000000 --- a/Documentation/howto/make-dist.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,52 +0,0 @@ -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 - |