Re: git-archive ignores submodules

From: Jens Lehmann <jens.lehmann@web.de>
Date: Apr 16, 2015, 19:03 UTC
Message-ID: <5530076E.50605@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <CAL1ZDKbcmrer481fRY2NEHUQ1J5tjRbHz2yLEcszh3Q-NjcvcQ@mail.gmail.com>

Am 16.04.2015 um 20:09 schrieb Pedro Rodrigues:

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> Good to know about git submodule foreach.
>
> Simpler yet, I'm using:
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> zip -r ../project.zip . -x *.git*
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> Which essentially does the same thing I would need from git-archive
> --recurse-submodule, zip everything excluding .git folders. Still
> would be better to use git itself.

Yes.

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> 2015-04-16 18:56 GMT+01:00 Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.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.

I just rebased a patch Lars Hjemli posted in 2009 (which I kept in my GitHub repo to resurrect it when I find the time) to current master:

https://github.com/jlehmann/git-submod-enhancements/commits/archive--submodules

See gmane/$107030 for its original posting. Apart from renaming the '--submodule' option to '--recurse-submodules' and solving a merge conflict I didn't change anything. Not sure why it wasn't accepted back then, I'll have to read that thread more closely ...

If people are interested I could try to polish it and resubmit it. It would be great if Pedro could test that it does what he expects.