added mkrelease.sh script into utils. gitignore modified accordingly since this scrip...

[redis.git] / utils / mkrelease.sh

diff --git a/utils/mkrelease.sh b/utils/mkrelease.sh
new file mode 100755 (executable)
index 0000000..2316fff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/mkrelease.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+if [ $# != "1" ]
+then
+    echo "Usage: ./mkrelease.sh <git-ref>"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+TAG=$1
+TARNAME="redis-${TAG}.tar"
+echo "Generating /tmp/${TARNAME}"
+git archive $TAG --prefix redis-${TAG}/ > /tmp/$TARNAME || exit 1
+echo "Gizipping the archive"
+rm -f /tmp/$TARNAME.gz
+gzip -9 /tmp/$TARNAME