README: Update packaging section for Git repositories

Change-Id: I8d9c56be8c1381b175ce7695c53f31b1767d9d17
Signed-off-by: Nico Huber <nico.h@gmx.de>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/22454
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer <stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/README b/README
index ab761f73b..449103d29 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -24,20 +24,22 @@ Please see the flashrom(8) manpage.
 Packaging
 ---------
 
-To package flashrom and remove dependencies on subversion, either use
+To package flashrom and remove dependencies on Git, either use
 make export
 or
 make tarball
 
-make export will export all flashrom files from the subversion repository at
-revision BASE into a directory named $EXPORTDIR/flashrom-$VERSION-r$SVNREVISION
-and will additionally modify the Makefile in that directory to contain the svn
-revision of the exported tree.
+'make export' will export all flashrom files from the Git repository at
+revision HEAD into a directory named "$EXPORTDIR/flashrom-$RELEASENAME"
+and will additionally add a "versioninfo.inc" file in that directory to
+contain the Git revision of the exported tree and a date for the manual
+page.
 
-make tarball will simply tar up the result of make export and gzip compress it.
+'make tarball' will simply tar up the result of make export and compress
+it with bzip2.
 
-The snapshot tarballs are the result of make tarball and require no further
-processing.
+The snapshot tarballs are the result of 'make tarball' and require no
+further processing.
 
 
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