Building a debian source package (snapshot version)

make-snapshot-dsc

#!/bin/sh

# 2012 Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <ssm@debian.org>

set -e
set -u

test "$(git status --porcelain | wc -l)" = "0" || {
    echo "Aborting: Uncommitted changes in tree"
    exit 1
}

this_branch=$(git branch  | awk '$1 == "*" {print $2}')
git checkout -B snapshot-build
git dch -a --debian-branch=snapshot-build -S ${1:+--snapshot-number $1}
git commit -m 'Update changelog for snapshot build' -- debian/changelog
gitpkg snapshot-build
git checkout $this_branch