Re: [PATCH] git-archive: accept --owner and --group like GNU tar

From: suzuki toshiya <mpsuzuki@hiroshima-u.ac.jp>
Date: Jan 5, 2018, 04:23 UTC
Message-ID: <5A4EFDAD.3050105@hiroshima-u.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: <2112f9c245d64f4e89361df7e9de9374@OS2PR01MB1147.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com>

Dear Junio,

Could you tell me your thought about the way for me to go? Do you agree with his suggestion; "--uid etc is not the right solution, --include-untracked is better and generic" ? Or, should I work "--uid etc" further?

Regards, mpsuzuki

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:
> 
>> I don't know if it's a good idea, but perhaps we don't even need a new
>> option.  We could change how pathspecs of untracked files are handled:
>> Instead of aborting we could include them in the archive.  (Sounds like
>> the simplest possible interface, but may have practical problems.)
> 
> One practical problem is that users who do this
> 
>     $ git archive HEAD Documentation/ | tar tf -
> 
> would be expecting (at least) two different things, depending on the
> situation they are in.
> 
> So at least you'd need an "--include-untracked" option, I guess.
>