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-#!/bin/bash
-#  Copyright (c) 2011-present, Facebook, Inc.  All rights reserved.
-#  This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
-#  LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant
-#  of patent rights can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
-
-set -e
-if [ -z "$GIT" ]
-then
-  GIT="git"
-fi
-
-# Print out the colored progress info so that it can be brainlessly
-# distinguished by users.
-function title() {
-  echo -e "\033[1;32m$*\033[0m"
-}
-
-usage="Create new RocksDB version and prepare it for the release process\n"
-usage+="USAGE: ./make_new_version.sh <version> [<remote>]\n"
-usage+="  version: specify a version without '.fb' suffix (e.g. 5.4).\n"
-usage+="  remote: name of the remote to push the branch to (default: origin)."
-
-# -- Pre-check
-if [[ $# < 1 ]]; then
-  echo -e $usage
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-ROCKSDB_VERSION=$1
-
-REMOTE="origin"
-if [[ $# > 1 ]]; then
-  REMOTE=$2
-fi
-
-GIT_BRANCH=`git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`
-echo $GIT_BRANCH
-
-if [ $GIT_BRANCH != "master" ]; then
-  echo "Error: Current branch is '$GIT_BRANCH', Please switch to master branch."
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-title "Adding new tag for this release ..."
-BRANCH="$ROCKSDB_VERSION.fb"
-$GIT checkout -b $BRANCH
-
-# Setting up the proxy for remote repo access
-title "Pushing new branch to remote repo ..."
-git push $REMOTE --set-upstream $BRANCH
-
-title "Branch $BRANCH is pushed to github;"