diff --git a/scripts/createSrcAndDocPackage.sh b/scripts/createSrcAndDocPackage.sh
index 66d8de2b18f130dd5b2c65de38edab5427f5b552..eb2b946e58cbad180c4719528894f629ec432c9a 100755
--- a/scripts/createSrcAndDocPackage.sh
+++ b/scripts/createSrcAndDocPackage.sh
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@
 if [[ $# != 2 ]]; then
     cat <<USAGE
 usage:
-  $0 <branch> <version>
+  $0 <refspec> <version>
 
-  Creates tar and zip source package from origin/<branch> and documentation-zip from current checkout.
+  Creates tar and zip source package from <refspec> and documentation-zip from current checkout.
   Files and directories are named after <version>.
   example:
-    $0 2.0.0 2.0.0-rc1
+    $0 origin/2.0.0 2.0.0-rc1
 USAGE
     exit 1
 fi
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ BRANCH=$1
 VERSION=$2
 cd `dirname $0`/..
 echo "Creating tar archive..."
-git archive --format=tar --prefix=qt-creator-${VERSION}-src/ origin/${BRANCH} | gzip > qt-creator-${VERSION}-src.tar.gz || exit 1
+git archive --format=tar --prefix=qt-creator-${VERSION}-src/ ${BRANCH} | gzip > qt-creator-${VERSION}-src.tar.gz || exit 1
 echo "Creating zip archive..."
-git archive --format=zip --prefix=qt-creator-${VERSION}-src/ origin/${BRANCH} > qt-creator-${VERSION}-src.zip || exit 1
+git archive --format=zip --prefix=qt-creator-${VERSION}-src/ ${BRANCH} > qt-creator-${VERSION}-src.zip || exit 1
 echo "Creating documentation..."
 rm -r doc/html
 qmake -r && make docs_online || exit 1