Adds tarball generation script

This just makes it easier to generate tarballs of master and
tarballs of releases.

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# usage: maketarball
+#        maketarball <tag>
+#
+# With no arguments, this creates a source tarball from git master with a
+# filename based on today's date.
+#
+# With a <tag> argument, this creates a tarball of the tag.
+#
+# Examples:
+#
+#    ./maketarball
+#    ./maketarball v0.0.2
+
+NOWDATE=`date "+%Y-%m-%d"`
+
+if [ -z "$1" ]
+then
+    REVISH=master
+    PREFIX="$NOWDATE-$REVISH"
+else
+    REVISH=$1
+    PREFIX="$REVISH"
+fi
+
+# convert PREFIX to all lowercase.
+# nix the v from tag names.
+PREFIX=`echo "$PREFIX" | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' | sed s/v//`
+
+echo "== REVISH $REVISH"
+echo "== PREFIX $PREFIX"
+
+echo ""
+
+echo "generating archive...."
+git archive \
+    --format=tar \
+    --prefix=mediagoblin-$PREFIX/ \
+    $REVISH > mediagoblin-$PREFIX.tar
+
+echo "compressing...."
+gzip mediagoblin-$PREFIX.tar
+
+echo "archive at mediagoblin-$PREFIX.tar.gz"
+
+echo "done."
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