diff --git a/make-libhover-tarball.sh b/make-libhover-tarball.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+rel=$1
+tag=`echo $rel | sed -e 's/\./_/g'`
+echo $tag
+mkdir -p temp && cd temp
+rm -rf libhover
+svn export svn://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/technology/org.eclipse.linuxtools/libhover/tags/$rel libhover
+cd libhover
+pwd
+tar -czvf eclipse-cdt-fetched-src-libhover-$tag.tar.gz org.eclipse.linuxtools.cdt.libhover*
+