From: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 10:44:27 GMT
Subject: Re: how to git-archive ignore some files?
Message-ID: <4826CE0B.8080109@lsrfire.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <7vk5i7gk6e.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:
> 
>> To really solve this without external tools, git-archive needed to
>> grow an --exclude option like git-ls-files, though.
> 
> Because exclude is never about ignoring what is already tracked, an
> option "like" git-ls-files would not help this case, I am afraid.

True, it should be named differently, e.g. --ignore.

Another idea: would it make sense to have an attribute for that instead
(or in addition to the command line parameter)?  I.e. files marked
export-ignore would not end up in the archive.  I suspect the set of
files to ignore doesn't change from archive to archive one creates.

René