From 15805ff38b83a72c2c7c96a24bd642ee1176d819 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nigel Croxon Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 14:23:21 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add README.git file. Instructions on how to archive. Signed-off-by: Nigel Croxon --- README.git | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.git diff --git a/README.git b/README.git new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c719b20 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.git @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +README.git + +Generating releases from git a very simple process; + +1) Edit the file "Makefile". Changing the "VERSION" line to the new version. +2) Do a "git commit" just for the version number change. +3) Then do a "make test-archive". +That will make a file in the current directory gnu-efi-$VERSION.tar.bz2 , +with its top level directory gnu-efi-$VERSION/ and the source tree under that. + +Once you've tested that and you're sure it's what you want to release, +4) Do "make archive", which will tag a release in git and generate a +final tarball from it. + +You then push to the archive, being sure to include the tag: +5) "git push origin master:master --tags" + +And upload the archive wherever it's supposed to go. + + +