Automatically Creating Archives from Git Tags

david@systemoverlord.com (David Tomaschik) — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 13:33:05 +0000

At work, we've been moving all of our development processes to git. As part of that, I've encouraged that alphas, betas, and releases be tagged in git -- it's important to know which versions are in use where. Additionally, my director wanted archives (zips/tars) of each of these versions to make it easier to install the releases, particularly for the members of our department who are not git-friendly. I realized that with git hooks and our use of gitolite, we could produce automated archives when tags with the words alpha/beta/release are pushed to the gitolite server. The script below is placed in the $GL_PACKAGE_HOOKS/common directory. It uses the name of the repository to decide if it should be archived (matches $ALLOW_ARCHIVE) and where the archive should be put (within $ARCHIVE_DIR).

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Automatically Creating Archives from Git Tags