Generate source tarball of Maven + Git project

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#!/bin/bash

echo "Determining Git branch..."
BRANCH=`git branch | grep '^[*] ' | sed -e 's/^[*] //'`

echo "Determining Maven project artifactId..."
ARTIFACT=`mvn help:evaluate -Dexpression=project.artifactId | grep -v '^\[INFO\]'`

echo "Determining Maven project version..."
VERSION=`mvn help:evaluate -Dexpression=project.version | grep -v '^\[INFO\]'`

PREFIX="$ARTIFACT-$VERSION"
TARBALL="$PREFIX.tar.gz"

echo "Archiving branch '$BRANCH' to $TARBALL..."

git archive --format=tar --prefix=$PREFIX $BRANCH | gzip -9 > $TARBALL

echo "Done! Note: Archive only contains the *committed* versions of files"