Re: git-archive and tar options

From: Sylvain Rabot <sylvain@abstraction.fr>
Date: Jul 19, 2011, 20:10 UTC
Message-ID: <1311106207.17539.12.camel@kheops>
In-Reply-To: <m239i8vjlk.fsf@igel.home>

On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 19:48 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:

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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > So you're probably stuck with extracting the results of "git archive" to
> > a temporary directory and then using GNU tar to re-archive them (or if
> > you have a checkout, you can just tar that up directly, feeding the list
> > from "git ls-files" into tar).
> 
> That would lose the embedded commit-id, though.
> 
> Andreas.
>

You can pass the commit id this way.

$ tar --pax-option "comment=$COMMIT" ...

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Sylvain Rabot <sylvain@abstraction.fr>