diff --git a/build/tools/git-make-release b/build/tools/git-make-release
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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# This is the script used by VZ to make wxWidgets releases. It is unofficial
+# because it must be ran from git-svn repository and not the official svn one
+# and relies on having a recent Perl installation. But it has the advantage of
+# being very simple because git knows which files should be included in the
+# distribution and we don't need to maintain the list of them ourselves but we
+# also don't run the risk of including anything unwanted.
+#
+# Another prerequisite for using it is to create the list of files to be
+# converted to DOS EOLs for Windows distribution, it must exist in the parent
+# directory and be called eol-native. This can be done using the companion
+# svn-find-native-eols.pl script. And will only need to be redone when
+# svn:eol-style property changes for any files (most likely because it will be
+# set for a newly added file).
+#
+# To summarize, here are the steps to create the release:
+#
+#   % cd $svn
+#   % $git/build/tools/svn-find-native-eols.pl > $git/../eol-native
+#   % cd $git
+#   % git svn tag WX_x_y_z
+#   % ./build/tools/git-make-release x.y.z
+#   % ... upload ../wxWidgets-x.y.z.{7z,tar.bz2,zip} ...
+#
+# If anything is wrong and some minor fixes are required, only the last two
+# steps (tagging and git-make-release) must be repeated.
+
+version=$1
+if [ -z "$version" ]; then
+    echo "Must specify the distribution version." >2
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+set -e
+set -x
+
+prefix=wxWidgets-$version
+destdir=$(dirname $(readlink -f $0))/../../../$prefix
+
+cleanup() {
+    rm -rf $destdir
+}
+
+trap cleanup INT TERM EXIT
+
+cleanup
+
+git archive --prefix=$prefix/ HEAD | (cd ..; tar x)
+cd ..
+mv $prefix/include/wx/msw/setup0.h $prefix/include/wx/msw/setup.h
+
+tar cjf $prefix.tar.bz2 $prefix
+
+cd $prefix
+set +x
+for f in `cat ../eol-native`; do
+    if [ $f == "include/wx/msw/setup0.h" ]; then
+        # we renamed this file above so adjust
+        f="include/wx/msw/setup.h"
+    fi
+    unix2dos $f
+done
+set -x
+
+zip -q -r ../$prefix.zip .
+
+7z a ../$prefix.7z . >/dev/null