From f924c43621b8ca8f97d8cdbba210034cd145dc0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Goldschmidt <goldsimon@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2021 21:46:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: add description to get a release tgz from git

---
 doc/savannah.txt | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/savannah.txt b/doc/savannah.txt
index dd537ffb..12e2fc15 100644
--- a/doc/savannah.txt
+++ b/doc/savannah.txt
@@ -102,6 +102,9 @@ Archive the current directory using tar, gzip'd, bzip2'd and zip'd.
  tar cjvf lwip-1.4.1.tar.bz2 lwip-1.4.1
  zip -r lwip-1.4.1.zip lwip-1.4.1
 
+Alterntively, archive the current directory using git
+ git archive -o lwip-1.4.1.tar.gz --prefix lwip-1.4.1/ STABLE-1_4_1
+
 Now, sign the archives with a detached GPG binary signature as follows:
  gpg -b lwip-1.4.1.tar.gz
  gpg -b lwip-1.4.1.tar.bz2