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Re: Commit ID in exported Tar Ball

From
René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Date
May 19, 2007, 20:22 UTC
Message-ID
<464F5CA2.3070809@lsrfire.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To
<20070517171150.GL5272@planck.djpig.de>
Frank Lichtenheld schrieb:
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> On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 06:57:22PM +0200, Johan Herland wrote:
>> Of course, it all depends on whether the $Id$ conversion is triggered by 
>> git-archive...
> 
> Another possibility might be to add a commandline switch to git-archive
> so you can decide whether the commit id should be added as a header to
> the tar file (which it already supports) or as a ordinary file (which
> should be reasonable trivial to implement). The question if whether
> it would be worth to add that feature. Don't know if there are many
> other users out there that need it.

Something like the following patch? Since we're already embedding the commit ID in a comment, we might as well offer creating a synthetic file for it, too, if that solves a user's problem that might be difficult to work around otherwise.

René
 Documentation/git-archive.txt |    4 ++++
 archive-tar.c                 |    7 +++++++
 archive-zip.c                 |    7 +++++++
 archive.h                     |    1 +
 builtin-archive.c             |   11 +++++++++++
 5 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
index 721e035..ac31aac 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ OPTIONS
 --prefix=<prefix>/::
 	Prepend <prefix>/ to each filename in the archive.
 
+--commit-id-file=<filename>::
+	Adds a file to the archive containing the commit ID.  This option
+	is ignored if <tree-ish> references a tree instead of a commit.
+
 <extra>::
 	This can be any options that the archiver backend understand.
 	See next section.
diff --git a/archive-tar.c b/archive-tar.c
index 33e7657..555850a 100644
--- a/archive-tar.c
+++ b/archive-tar.c
@@ -319,6 +319,13 @@ int write_tar_archive(struct archiver_args *args)
 	}
 	read_tree_recursive(args->tree, args->base, plen, 0,
 			    args->pathspec, write_tar_entry);
+	if (args->commit_sha1 && args->commit_sha1_file) {
+		unsigned char fake_sha1[20];
+		pretend_sha1_file(sha1_to_hex(args->commit_sha1), 40,
+		                  OBJ_BLOB, fake_sha1);
+		write_tar_entry(fake_sha1, args->base, plen,
+		                args->commit_sha1_file, 0100666, 0);
+	}
 	write_trailer();
 
 	return 0;
diff --git a/archive-zip.c b/archive-zip.c
index 3cbf6bb..88c5dfa 100644
--- a/archive-zip.c
+++ b/archive-zip.c
@@ -328,6 +328,13 @@ int write_zip_archive(struct archiver_args *args)
 	}
 	read_tree_recursive(args->tree, args->base, plen, 0,
 			    args->pathspec, write_zip_entry);
+	if (args->commit_sha1 && args->commit_sha1_file) {
+		unsigned char fake_sha1[20];
+		pretend_sha1_file(sha1_to_hex(args->commit_sha1), 40,
+		                  OBJ_BLOB, fake_sha1);
+		write_zip_entry(fake_sha1, args->base, plen,
+		                args->commit_sha1_file, 0100666, 0);
+	}
 	write_zip_trailer(args->commit_sha1);
 
 	free(zip_dir);
diff --git a/archive.h b/archive.h
index 6838dc7..020f82f 100644
--- a/archive.h
+++ b/archive.h
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ struct archiver_args {
 	const char *base;
 	struct tree *tree;
 	const unsigned char *commit_sha1;
+	const char *commit_sha1_file;
 	time_t time;
 	const char **pathspec;
 	unsigned int verbose : 1;
diff --git a/builtin-archive.c b/builtin-archive.c
index 7f4e409..e58ea16 100644
--- a/builtin-archive.c
+++ b/builtin-archive.c
@@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ int parse_archive_args(int argc, const char **argv, struct archiver *ar)
 	int extra_argc = 0;
 	const char *format = "tar";
 	const char *base = "";
+	const char *commit_sha1_file = NULL;
 	int verbose = 0;
 	int i;
 
@@ -174,6 +175,10 @@ int parse_archive_args(int argc, const char **argv, struct archiver *ar)
 			base = arg + 9;
 			continue;
 		}
+		if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--commit-id-file=")) {
+			commit_sha1_file = arg + 17;
+			continue;
+		}
 		if (!strcmp(arg, "--")) {
 			i++;
 			break;
@@ -192,6 +197,11 @@ int parse_archive_args(int argc, const char **argv, struct archiver *ar)
 		usage(archive_usage);
 	if (init_archiver(format, ar) < 0)
 		die("Unknown archive format '%s'", format);
+	if (commit_sha1_file) {
+		size_t namelen = strlen(commit_sha1_file);
+		if (namelen == 0 || commit_sha1_file[namelen - 1] == '/')
+			die("Invalid commit ID file name: %s", commit_sha1_file);
+	}
 
 	if (extra_argc) {
 		if (!ar->parse_extra)
@@ -201,6 +211,7 @@ int parse_archive_args(int argc, const char **argv, struct archiver *ar)
 	}
 	ar->args.verbose = verbose;
 	ar->args.base = base;
+	ar->args.commit_sha1_file = commit_sha1_file;
 
 	return i;
 }
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  1. Thomas GlanzmannMay 17, 2007
  2. Johan HerlandMay 17, 2007
  3. Frank LichtenheldMay 17, 2007
  4. Thomas GlanzmannMay 17, 2007
  5. Johan HerlandMay 17, 2007
  6. git-archive: convert archive entries like checkouts doRené Scharfe, May 18, 2007
  7. Daniel BarkalowMay 18, 2007
  8. René ScharfeMay 18, 2007
  9. René ScharfeMay 19, 2007
  10. Junio C HamanoMay 19, 2007
  11. A Large Angry SCMMay 19, 2007
  12. René ScharfeMay 20, 2007
  13. René ScharfeMay 20, 2007
  14. Shawn O. PearceMay 20, 2007
  15. René ScharfeMay 20, 2007
  16. Shawn O. PearceMay 21, 2007
  17. Petr BaudisMay 21, 2007
  18. René ScharfeMay 21, 2007
  19. René ScharfeMay 22, 2007
  20. Junio C HamanoMay 22, 2007
  21. René ScharfeMay 22, 2007
  22. Shawn O. PearceMay 23, 2007
  23. René ScharfeMay 20, 2007
  24. Thomas GlanzmannMay 20, 2007
  25. Brian GernhardtMay 20, 2007
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  27. Peter BaumannMay 21, 2007
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  30. Thomas GlanzmannMay 21, 2007
  31. Shawn O. PearceMay 21, 2007
  32. Thomas GlanzmannMay 21, 2007
  33. Brian GernhardtMay 21, 2007
  34. Thomas GlanzmannMay 21, 2007
  35. Frank LichtenheldMay 17, 2007
  36. Johan HerlandMay 17, 2007
  37. Kristian HøgsbergMay 17, 2007
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