From: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:46:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Make git-tar-tree more flexible
Message-ID: <44CCFE93.7040500@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060730174847.GA32574@eve.kumria.com>

Anand Kumria wrote:
>   If you have a project which is setup like:
>      project
>      website
>   and you decide you wish to generate a tar archive of _just_ the 'project'
>   portion, git-tar-tree is not able to help. This patch adds two parameters
>   which can assist.
> 
>   The first is '--pathlimit', which forces git-tar-tree to only generate the
>   tar archive for project; as in:
>     'git tar-tree --pathlimit=project project-1.0 tag-1.0'
> 
>   The above command will mean that paths in the tar archive look like:
>     project-1.0/project/src/main.c
>   etc.
> 
>   The second parameter allows you two strip the extraneous project, as in:
>     'git tar-tree --strippath=project --pathlimit=project project-1.0 tag-1.0     Which will result in tar archives looking like:
>     project-1.0/src/main.c
> 

This could be made more general and more Git-ish instead, by 
implementing a strip common prefix option and using a double dash option 
to signal that the remaining arguments are the paths of interest.

The synopsis would then look like:

	git-tar-tree [--remote=<repo>] [ --strip-common-prefix ]
		<tree-ish> [ <base> ] [ -- <paths>... ]