Re: how to git-archive ignore some files?

Hi Victor,

On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 03:15:31PM -0300 or thereabouts, Victor Bogado da Silva Lins wrote:

Others already discussed the --delete method with tar, and I do something similar except slightly more flexible. I have for example, a git repo that checks out directories from CVS, and of course I don't want these CVS directories in my 'release'. So put a executable '.release' file in each repo that tells my release script how to fix up the tarball to be production ready.

Here is my release script, modeled after some lines Linus put in the git documentation. It is meant to be run, reviewed for mistakes, and then have the commands run via cut-paste.

#!/bin/bash stable="$1" last="$2" new="$3" chip="$4" rel=`pwd | cut -d'/' -f6 | sed -e 's/\.git//'`

if [ -z $chip ]; then
	reldir=$rel
else
	reldir=$rel-$chip
fi

reldir="$reldir-$new" tarfile="$reldir.tar"

if [ -d $reldir ]; then
	echo "release directory $reldir already exists, please remove" 1>&2
	exit 1
fi

if [ -f "../$reldir.tar" ]; then
	echo "Release file ../$reldir.tar already exists, please remove" 1>&2
	exit 1
fi

if [ -f "../$reldir.tar.gz" ]; then
	echo "Release file ../$reldir.tar.gz already exists, please remove" 1>&2
	exit 1
fi

echo "#git tag v$new"
echo "Tagging new release v$new" 1>&2
echo "git archive --prefix=$reldir/ v$new > ../$tarfile"
echo "mkdir $reldir"
#echo "git diff v$stable v$new | gzip -9 > ../patch-$new.gz"
echo "git log --no-merges v$new ^v$last > $reldir/ChangeLog-$new"
echo "git shortlog --no-merges v$new ^v$last > $reldir/ShortLog"
echo "git diff --stat --summary -M v$last v$new > $reldir/diffstat-$new"
echo "tar -rf ../$tarfile $reldir/*"
./.release $reldir ../$tarfile
if [ $? != 0 ]; then
	echo ".release script failed! removing generated files" 1>&2
	echo "rm -rf $reldir ../$tarfile"
	exit 1
fi
echo "gzip -9 < ../$tarfile > ../$tarfile.gz"
echo "rm -rf $reldir ../$tarfile"
echo "New release at ../$tarfile.gz" 1>&2

And an example .release file

#!/bin/bash dirlist="make foo_include scripts" excludes="--exclude CVS --exclude '*.o' --exclude '*.swp' --exclude '*.d' --exclude '*.a'" reldir=$1 tarfile=$2 #echo "make doc && make -C doc/latex pdf" echo "cp -a $dirlist $reldir" echo "cp Makefile.release $reldir/Makefile" echo "tar $excludes -rf $tarfile $reldir/*"

# write over the makefile echo "cp Makefile.release $reldir/Makefile" echo "tar -u -f $tarfile $reldir/Makefile" echo "tar --delete --file=$tarfile $reldir/Makefile.release"

# delete the doxygen file echo "cp Doxyfile $reldir" echo "tar --delete --file=$tarfile $reldir/Doxyfile"

# remove traces of the release file echo "tar --delete --file=$tarfile $reldir/.release"