re-wrote exportit to use git

NOEXPORT

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-exportit
-.cvsignore

exportit

@@ -1,15 +1,17 @@
 #!/bin/ksh
 
 # exportit -- a simple little script to export something from a
-# CVS repository and create a "release" tarbal of it, in mostly
-# automated fasion.  Could probably stand do more error
-# checking, but if things are happy, it works.  :-)  Note that
-# people getting this with ttyload will have no reason to use it
-# in conjunction with ttyload.
+# git repository and create a "release" tarbal of it, in mostly
+# automated fasion.  Re-written from an earlier CVS version.
 
-# Copyright 2001 by David Lindes, All Rights Reserved.
-# Distributed under the license described in the file LICENSE
-# that comes with ttyload.
+# Note that people getting this with ttyload will presumably have no
+# reason to use it in conjunction with ttyload, unless they're forking
+# their own version.  I'd much prefer to get patches or pull requests
+# (e.g. on GitHub, though from your own git repo is fine, too).
+
+# Copyright 2001-2011 by David Lindes, All Rights Reserved.
+# Distributed under the license described in the file LICENSE that
+# comes with ttyload.
 
 # if you're wanting to use this script for some other project,
 # and you want to call your release something other than the
@@ -30,16 +32,12 @@ else
 fi
 
 # automagical settings for things:
-path="`cat CVS/Repository`"
-root="`cat CVS/Root`"
-localroot="${root##*:}"
-localpath="${path##${localroot}/}"
-name="${name:-`basename "$path"`}"
+name="${name:-ttyload}" # this used to be automatic, from CVS info.  Skipping that now.
 version="`cat Version`"
-cvsvers="${name}_`echo \"$version\" | sed -e 's/[ \.]/_/g'`"
+tagname="${name}_`echo \"$version\" | sed -e 's/[ \.]/_/g'`"
 dirname="$name-$version"
 
-for item in "$dirname" "$dirname.tar" "$dirname.tar.gz"
+for item in "$dirname.tar" "$dirname.tar.gz" "$dirname.tar.bz2"
 do
     if [ -e "$item" ]
     then
@@ -50,16 +48,10 @@ do
 done
 
 # let the user know what the settings came up with:
-echo "Creating export of $name version $version (CVS: $cvsvers)"
+echo "Creating export of $name version $version (tag: $tagname)"
 
 # export, and if that fails, bail.
-cvs export -d "$dirname" -r "$cvsvers" $localpath || exit 1
-
-for file in `cat NOEXPORT`
-do
-    (set -x; rm -rf "$dirname"/"$file")
-done
+git archive --prefix=$dirname/ -o $dirname.tar $tagname || exit 1
 
-# then tar and gzip:
-tar cvf "$dirname.tar" "$dirname"
-gzip -9fv "$dirname.tar"
+# then bzip:
+bzip2 -9fv "$dirname.tar"

exportit_cvs

@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+#!/bin/ksh
+
+# exportit -- a simple little script to export something from a
+# CVS repository and create a "release" tarbal of it, in mostly
+# automated fasion.  Could probably stand do more error
+# checking, but if things are happy, it works.  :-)  Note that
+# people getting this with ttyload will have no reason to use it
+# in conjunction with ttyload.
+
+# Copyright 2001 by David Lindes, All Rights Reserved.
+# Distributed under the license described in the file LICENSE
+# that comes with ttyload.
+
+# if you're wanting to use this script for some other project,
+# and you want to call your release something other than the
+# name of the directory above this one (.., but by name), change
+# the "false" below to "true", and the "xyzprod" to whatever you
+# want to call things.  Note that your tagging will have to also
+# be changed appropriately.
+
+if false
+then
+    # override the name of what to call stuff:
+    name="xyzprod"
+else
+    # make sure name is unset, so that the ${name:-blah}
+    # expansion below doesn't get stuff from your environment
+    # accidentally
+    unset name
+fi
+
+# automagical settings for things:
+path="`cat CVS/Repository`"
+root="`cat CVS/Root`"
+localroot="${root##*:}"
+localpath="${path##${localroot}/}"
+name="${name:-`basename "$path"`}"
+version="`cat Version`"
+cvsvers="${name}_`echo \"$version\" | sed -e 's/[ \.]/_/g'`"
+dirname="$name-$version"
+
+for item in "$dirname" "$dirname.tar" "$dirname.tar.gz"
+do
+    if [ -e "$item" ]
+    then
+	echo "Sorry, $item exists, and I need it not to." >&2
+	echo "Please remove it or update your Version file to proceed." >&2
+	exit 1
+    fi
+done
+
+# let the user know what the settings came up with:
+echo "Creating export of $name version $version (CVS: $cvsvers)"
+
+# export, and if that fails, bail.
+cvs export -d "$dirname" -r "$cvsvers" $localpath || exit 1
+
+for file in `cat NOEXPORT`
+do
+    (set -x; rm -rf "$dirname"/"$file")
+done
+
+# then tar and gzip:
+tar cvf "$dirname.tar" "$dirname"
+gzip -9fv "$dirname.tar"