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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
	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