README.git Generating releases from git a very simple process; 1) Edit the file "Makefile". Changing the "VERSION" line to the new version. 2) Do a "git commit" just for the version number change. 3) Then do a "make test-archive". That will make a file in the current directory gnu-efi-$VERSION.tar.bz2 , with its top level directory gnu-efi-$VERSION/ and the source tree under that. Once you've tested that and you're sure it's what you want to release, 4) Do "make archive", which will tag a release in git and generate a final tarball from it. You then push to the archive, being sure to include the tag: 5) "git push origin master:master --tags" And upload the archive wherever it's supposed to go.