[PATCH 8/8] A release includes a tar-ball.

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Sun, 2013-05-12 at 14:56 +0200, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
> On Sun, 12 May 2013, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > On domingo, 12 de maio de 2013 11.52.32, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
> > > +       tar czf $(NAME)-$(VERSION_STRING).tar.gz \
> > > +               --exclude-backups \
> > > +               --exclude .dep \
> > > +               --exclude .git \
> > > +               --exclude .gitignore \
> > > +               --exclude-from .gitignore \
> > > +               --exclude '*~' \
> > > +               --exclude subsurface \
> > > +               .
> >
> > Can we use git archive here?
> 
> Sure.  Why didn't I think of it?

That would have been my one correction as well :-)

> > To exclude .gitignore from the archive, add this
> > to .gitattributes:
> >
> > .gitignore              export-ignore
> > .gitattributes          export-ignore
> 
> New patches comming up shortly.

Thanks, the rest looked good!

/D