"archive on tag" hook

Hi,

After looking in a few places for a tool to create an archive when pushing tags to a central repository, I have given up and wrote my own.

It's grown into a fairly complete perl script that runs either as a post-receive or update hook and creates a tarball (or zip file) using git-archive in a specific directory. It can also optionnally generate an MD5 sum of the tarball.

Part of this work was sponsored by Koumbit[1] and done for the Aegir project[2].

The code itself is available on our git repository[3]. I will also write a small subsection in the tools page of the wiki[4].

Comments and improvements welcome.

Enjoy!

A.

[1] http://www.koumbit.org/ [2] http://groups.drupal.org/aegir [3] http://git.koumbit.net/?p=tools/git-hooks/.git;a=blob;f=archive-tag [4] http://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools#Hooks