Re: Commit ID in exported Tar Ball

From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date: May 17, 2007, 17:28 UTC
Message-ID: <200705171928.34927.johan@herland.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070517171150.GL5272@planck.djpig.de>

On Thursday 17 May 2007, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:

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> On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 06:57:22PM +0200, Johan Herland wrote:
> > Of course, it all depends on whether the $Id$ conversion is triggered by 
> > git-archive...
> 
> Another possibility might be to add a commandline switch to git-archive
> so you can decide whether the commit id should be added as a header to
> the tar file (which it already supports) or as a ordinary file (which
> should be reasonable trivial to implement). The question if whether
> it would be worth to add that feature. Don't know if there are many
> other users out there that need it.

Although this efficiently solves Michael's problem, I still think the ideal solution would be for git-archive to do the same conversions/filters as a regular checkout would. Otherwise, we'll easily get into situations where a git-archive tree is different enough from a "regular" working tree to cause annoying differences in behaviour.

Have fun!

...Johan

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Johan Herland, <johan@herland.net>
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