Allow testing of the release mechanism

release.sh

@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ releasedir=$PACKAGE-$release
 GIT_DIR=`cd "${GIT_DIR-.git}" && pwd`
 export GIT_DIR
 
+if [ x"$release" = x'test' ]; then
+  releasetag=HEAD
+else
   echo $release > version.new
   if ! cmp -s version version.new ; then
     mv -f version.new version
@@ -26,6 +29,7 @@ else
   fi
   rm -f "$GIT_DIR"/refs/tags/$releasetag
   cg-tag $releasetag
+fi
 
 here=`pwd`