adds release publishing instructions to readme

Author: codeimpossible

README.md

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 By design, this plugin will reject input which doesn't complete the mask. You can bypass this by using a '?' character at the position where you would like to consider input optional. For example, a mask of "(999) 999-9999? x99999" would require only the first 10 digits of a phone number with extension being optional.
 
+Publishing a Release
+--------------------
+jQuery Masked Input uses git tags to publish releases to [Bower](http://www.bower.io). We used to just tag directly off of master but this added a lot of cruft - the entire git directory - to our users `bower_components` directory. A lot of other libraries are nice enough to clean up their distributions and so we should too.
+
+So here is how you go about publishing a new release. _This assumes you've updated the version strings in the dist/bower.json and the source js_.
+
+```
+    $ git subtree split --prefix dist --branch release
+
+    $ git checkout release
+
+    $ git merge -s subtree master
+
+    $ git tag <VERSION>
+
+    $ git push origin release && git push origin --tags
+```
+
 Setting up your Developer Environment
 -------------------------------------
 jQuery Masked Input uses [NodeJS](http://www.nodejs.org) and [GruntJS](http://www.gruntjs.com) as it's developer platform and build automation tool.