From 2d4e70465001167bd5d03fe72a2c6824895316cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Mako Hill <mako@atdot.cc>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 14:16:19 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] updated documents to be less brittle and to export .gitignore
 correctly

---
 new_tex_document | 18 +++++++++---------
 new_tex_letter   | 19 +++++++++----------
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/new_tex_document b/new_tex_document
index 6bc6381..d782d1c 100755
--- a/new_tex_document
+++ b/new_tex_document
@@ -1,22 +1,22 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 # Helper script to export LaTeX templates for new documents
-# Copyright (c) 2009 Benjamin Mako Hill <mako@atdot.cc>
+# Copyright (c) 2009-2016 Benjamin Mako Hill <mako@atdot.cc>
 # Released under the GPLv3 or later.
 
-CURDIR=`pwd`
+CURDIR=$(pwd)
+TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d)
 
 if test $1
 then
-    cd $HOME/tex/latex_mako
-    git checkout-index -f --prefix=$CURDIR/$1/ paper_template/*
-    cd $CURDIR
+    cd "$HOME/tex/latex_mako"
+    git archive --format=tar HEAD paper_template|tar x --strip=1 -C "$TMPDIR"
+    cd "$CURDIR"
 
     # get rid of paper_template subdir
-    mv $1/paper_template/* $1
-    rm -rf $CURDIR/$1/paper_template
-
-    mv $1/text.tex $1/$1.tex
+    mv "$TMPDIR" "$1"
+    cd "$1";
+    mv "text.tex" "$1.tex"
 else
     echo "specifiy a directory where the template should go";
 fi
diff --git a/new_tex_letter b/new_tex_letter
index 9c70dcd..2d95910 100755
--- a/new_tex_letter
+++ b/new_tex_letter
@@ -1,22 +1,21 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # Helper script to export LaTeX templates for new letters
-# Copyright (c) 2009 Benjamin Mako Hill <mako@atdot.cc>
+# Copyright (c) 2009-2016 Benjamin Mako Hill <mako@atdot.cc>
 # Released under the GPLv3 or later.
 
-CURDIR=`pwd`
+CURDIR=$(pwd)
+TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d)
 
 if test $1
 then
-    cd $HOME/tex/latex_mako
-    git checkout-index -f --prefix=$CURDIR/$1/ letter_template/*
-    cd $CURDIR
+    cd "$HOME/tex/latex_mako"
+    git archive --format=tar HEAD letter_template|tar x --strip=1 -C "$TMPDIR"
+    cd "$CURDIR"
 
     # get rid of paper_template subdir
-    mv $1/letter_template/* $1
-    rm -rf $CURDIR/$1/letter_template
-
-    mv $1/text.tex $1/$1.tex
+    mv "$TMPDIR" "$1"
+    cd "$1";
+    mv "text.tex" "$1.tex"
 else
     echo "specifiy a directory where the template should go";
 fi
-
-- 
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