Re: git-archive and submodules
I got too busy to continue working to get it included. Please feel free to pick up where I left off.
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On Apr 20, 2012, at 2:32 PM, André Caron <andre.l.caron@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Robert,
>
> I've recently raised the same submodule issue with git-archive you and
> Lars have in the past.
>
> What's the status on your application of the git-archive submodule
> patch? Have you applied the changes suggested by Lens Lehmann[1]?
> Your Git fork on GitHub[2] seems to have only applied Lars' patch and
> an unrelated SVN glob fix...
>
> Since you've touched this only last year, I'd like to know where you
> were at and I can see if I can pick up where you left off (unless you
> want to finish yourself).
>
> Thanks,
> André
>
> [1]: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/172851
> [2]: https://github.com/darconeous/git
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
> Date: Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 4:11 AM
> Subject: Re: git-archive and submodules
> To: André Caron <andre.l.caron@gmail.com>
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
>
>
> Am 19.04.2012 22:10, schrieb André Caron:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've recently needed to create a source code archive as part of a
>> custom build target. This repository uses submodules and I need to
>> include the submodlule's source code in the archives too. However,
>> git-archive does not have any option to do so.
>>
>> I've taken a quick look at the GMANE mailing list archives and it
>> seems this provoked quite a discussion in 2009 and that Lars Hjemli
>> even wrote a patch (in several flavors) for archive.c to include
>> submodule-aware processing. The lastest source code at
>> `git.kernel.org` does not contain any traces of this patch (or
>> submodule aware logic for that matter). The mailing list archives are
>> not very convenient to browse and I can't figure out what the status
>> on this submodule-aware git-archive idea is. Has this idea been
>> completely rejected, or is it still work in progress?
>
> The idea is not rejected, this would be a worthwhile addition. It has
> been brought up again last May, but as far as I know it is stalled
> since then:
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/172851
>
Robert Quattlebaum <darco@deepdarc.com>