diff --git a/archive.sh b/archive.sh
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/archive.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+JEMALLOC=deps/jemalloc
+DIR=$(mktemp -d /tmp/corvus.XXXXXX)
+TARGET=`pwd`
+
+version=$(git describe --exact-match --tags 2> /dev/null)
+if [ -z "$version" ]
+then
+    version=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)
+else
+    version=${version:1}
+fi
+
+git ls-files | grep -v "$JEMALLOC\|archive.sh" > $DIR/files
+(cd $JEMALLOC; git ls-files | sed "s#^#$JEMALLOC/#") >> $DIR/files
+echo $JEMALLOC/configure >> $DIR/files
+echo $JEMALLOC/VERSION >> $DIR/files
+
+# tar --transform "s#^#corvus-$version/#" -cjf corvus-$version.tar.bz2 `cat $FILES`
+
+mkdir $DIR/corvus-$version
+rsync -R $(cat $DIR/files) $DIR/corvus-$version
+tar -C $DIR -cjf corvus-$version.tar.bz2 corvus-$version
+rm -rf $DIR