From: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 17:56:23 GMT
Subject: Re: git-archive ignores submodules
Message-ID: <20150416175623.GJ21868@paksenarrion.iveqy.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAL1ZDKZs++NkLoHZ_w_YebQuZYG3rgAiH5SsaQfTmb9MPHjR3w@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 06:35:38PM +0100, Pedro Rodrigues wrote:
> I've been using git-archive as my main way of deploying to production
> servers, but today I've come across a git repo with submodules and
> found out that git archive has no option to include submodules on the
> output archive.

As far as I know this is an known limitation that's just waiting for
someone to solve. Thanks for bringing attention to it.

> This simply makes git-archive unusable on this scenario.

Not completely. There's a simple workaround. Combine git submodule
foreach with git archive and make an archive for each submodule.

Not as simple as if git archive --recurse-submodule would have been
implementet, but hopefully it can make things work for you at the
moment.

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Fredrik Gustafsson

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