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Re: git archive

From
Deskin Miller <deskinm@umich.edu>
Date
Oct 22, 2008, 13:08 UTC
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On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 08:42:01AM +0000, kenneth johansson wrote:
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> I was going to make a tar of the latest stable linux kernel. 
> Done it before but now I got a strange problem. 
> 
> >git archive --format=tar v2.6.27.2
> fatal: Not a valid object name

I had the same thing happen to me, while trying to make an archive of Git. Were you perchance working in a bare repository, as I was? I spent some time looking at it and I think git archive sets up the environment in the wrong order, though of course I never finished a patch so I'm going from memory:

After looking at the code again, I think the issue is that git_config is called in builtin-archive.c:cmd_archive before setup_git_directory is called in archive.c:write_archive. The former ends up setting GIT_DIR to be '.git' even if you're in a bare repository. My coding skills weren't up to fixing it easily; moving setup_git_directory before git_config in builtin-archive caused last test of t5000 to fail: GIT_DIR=some/nonexistent/path git archive --list should still display the archive formats.

Another vote for from me for the discussion carried on here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/98800

Deskin Miller
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Message 2 of 14 in “git archive”
  1. kenneth johanssonOct 22, 2008
  2. Deskin MillerOct 22, 2008
  3. kenneth johanssonOct 22, 2008
  4. archive: fix setup to work in bare repositoriesDeskin Miller, Oct 22, 2008
  5. Jeff KingOct 22, 2008
  6. Charles BaileyOct 22, 2008
  7. Fixed git archive for bare reposCharles Bailey, Oct 22, 2008
  8. Deskin MillerOct 23, 2008
  9. René ScharfeOct 24, 2008
  10. Fixed git archive for bare reposDeskin Miller, Oct 25, 2008
  11. Junio C HamanoOct 25, 2008
  12. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 23, 2008
  13. Deskin MillerOct 23, 2008
  14. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 24, 2008

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