diff --git a/src/Makefile.in b/src/Makefile.in
index 316b6c57..ab651364 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.in
+++ b/src/Makefile.in
@@ -73,17 +73,18 @@ depend:
 # The next targets are not very useful to you.  I use them to build
 # distributions, etc.
 
-# Build a tar file based on all files checked into CVS.
+# Build a tar file based on all files checked into git.
 distro:
-	ln -s .. remind-$(VERSION)
-	peekentry `find remind-$(VERSION) -depth -follow -name 'Entries' -print` | xargs tar cvf remind-$(VERSION).tar
+	ln -s . ../remind-$(VERSION)
+	(cd ..; git-ls-files) | sed -e 's/^/remind-$(VERSION)\//' | xargs tar -C .. -cvf remind-$(VERSION).tar
 	gzip -f -v -9 remind-$(VERSION).tar
-	rm -f remind-$(VERSION)
+	rm -f ../remind-$(VERSION)
 
 beta-tgz:
-	ln -s .. remind-$(VERSION)-BETA-$(BETA)
-	peekentry `find remind-$(VERSION)-BETA-$(BETA) -depth -follow -name 'Entries' -print` | xargs tar cvf remind-$(VERSION)-BETA-$(BETA).tar
+	ln -s . ../remind-$(VERSION)-BETA-$(BETA)
+	(cd ..; git-ls-files) | sed -e 's/^/remind-$(VERSION)-BETA-$(BETA)\//' | xargs tar -C .. -cvf remind-$(VERSION)-BETA-$(BETA).tar
 	gzip -f -v -9 remind-$(VERSION)-BETA-$(BETA).tar
-	rm -f remind-$(VERSION)-BETA-$(BETA)
+	rm -f ../remind-$(VERSION)-BETA-$(BETA)
+
 #---------------- Stuff after this added by "make depend" -----------------