From ccd90dccdbb5a94d3f68f9f3ce2deec3933b400e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cas Cremers <cas.cremers@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 14:27:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Releasescripts now also allow for building arbitrary
 description tags.

In a next pass, maybe we will allow for releasing *any* valid git revision.
---
 dist/build-arch-tag | 6 +++++-
 dist/releasescript  | 6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dist/build-arch-tag b/dist/build-arch-tag
index fa846ce..919c323 100755
--- a/dist/build-arch-tag
+++ b/dist/build-arch-tag
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@
 # and this is used to construct a archive with the binary of the
 # selected architecture.
 
+# Current
+DESCR=`git describe --tags`
+
 if [ "x$1" = "x" -o "x$2" = "x" ]
 then
 	echo
@@ -43,12 +46,13 @@ fi
 
 TAG=$2
 FOUND=`git-tag -l $TAG`
-if [ "x$TAG" = "x$FOUND" ]
+if [ "x$TAG" = "x$FOUND" -o "x$TAG" = "x$DESCR" ]
 then
 	echo "Tag $TAG found."
 else
 	echo "Don't know tag $TAG, please select one from below:"
 	git-tag -l
+	echo $DESCR
 	exit
 fi
 
diff --git a/dist/releasescript b/dist/releasescript
index 3aff5ef..2dfa759 100755
--- a/dist/releasescript
+++ b/dist/releasescript
@@ -2,12 +2,15 @@
 
 BUILDER=./build-arch-tag
 
+# Current
+DESCR=`git describe --tags`
+
 # Check whether the tag exists
 TAG=$1
 if [ "x$TAG" != "x" ]
 then
 	FOUND=`git-tag -l $TAG`
-	if [ "x$TAG" = "x$FOUND" ]
+	if [ "x$TAG" = "x$FOUND" -o "x$TAG" = "x$DESCR" ]
 	then
 		echo "Tag $TAG found."
 	else
@@ -24,6 +27,7 @@ then
 	echo
 	echo "Don't know tag $TAG, please select one from below:"
 	git-tag -l
+	echo $DESCR
 	exit
 fi