From: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:31:15 GMT
Subject: Re: git-archive not working correctly ?
Message-ID: <20070917003115.GV22865@planck.djpig.de>
In-Reply-To: <1189983026.22727.61.camel@niki2.guldbrand.net>

On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 12:50:26AM +0200, Niki Guldbrand wrote:
> I have been playing with git-archive for and hour or so, but can't get
> it to pass "extra" options to tar as it's documented that it should, or
> am i reading the docs wrong ?
> 
> git-archive --format=<fmt> [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
> [--remote=<repo>] <tree-ish> [path…]
> 
> <extra>
>         This can be any options that the archiver backend understand.
>         See next section.
>         
> I want to git tar the "--exclude=option", but i can't get it through.
> Is this option only valid for the zip format with the options "-0" and
> "-9" ?

Yes. The tar backend currently doesn't support any extra options.

Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
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