Add utility to create release tag

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+#! /bin/sh
+
+# add-release-tag -- turn a skeleton source tree that is appropriate for
+#                 	trunk or a branch into a full source tree that is
+#                 	appropriate for a tag.
+# 
+# We do this by building a dist tarball as a reference and add all
+# files that end up in that tarball to subversion.
+# 
+
+tarname=$1
+version=$2
+
+git checkout -b tmp
+./autogen.sh --enable-gtk-doc
+make
+make dist distdir=$tarname
+
+git add -f `tar tzf $tarname.tar.gz | sed s,^$tarname/,,`
+git commit -m "Complete for distribution."
+git tag -a $version -m "Released $version"
+git push --tags
+git checkout master
+git branch -D tmp