Re: [BUG] git archive broken in 1.7.8.1

From: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Date: Jan 11, 2012, 12:51 UTC
Message-ID: <20120111125113.GA11984@beez.lab.cmartin.tk>
In-Reply-To: <20120110230122.GA24020@vent.lifeintegrity.localnet>

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 06:01:22PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote:

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> On 2012-01-10 23:05:45, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > Unfortunately this producess a tarball with a different layout, e.g.
> > 
> > git archive --remote=git://anongit.kde.org/kgraphviewer.git HEAD:doc/en_US
> >   gives me a tarball with the doc/en_US files in the root
> 
> Meaning the files you have stored in git under doc/en_US are 
> dumped in the root directory of the tar?  That does not sound 
> like desired behavior for the feature.

Which feature do you mean? Using HEAD:doc/en_US should be equivalent to running `tar cf - .` from inside the doc/en_US, as what you're passing is that tree.

Using HEAD -- doc/en_US however means that you want to pack HEAD, but limit it to files that match doc/en_US, so it's working as designed. If you mean that 'HEAD -- doc/en_US' shouldn't give you a tar with those files at the root, then we agree.

cmn