From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:33:04 GMT
Subject: How to archive repo from sub-directory
Message-ID: <18389.54080.211086.922039@lisa.zopyra.com>

If I have a git repo with several levels of sub-directories, how
do I get git-archive to archive the entire tree, and not just
the tree from where I am?  Example:

% cd foo
% cat .git/description
foo project
% cd bar/baz
% git archive --format=tar --prefix=foo/ HEAD | bzip2 > foo.tar.bz2

produces a tar file starting only at baz.

If I can't conjur this on the command line with a clever argument to
git archive (I've tried several), then how would I ask git "What is
your top-level directory" so at least I could write a script to
do this?


Bill