From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:57:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_tree_entry: map blank requested entry to tree root
Message-ID: <7vac0rhf6g.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070110004633.GA14345@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>  - git-archive feeds the 'prefix' variable to get_tree_entry; it works
>    fine in the root with or without the patch. I seem to be getting an
>    error, with or without my patch, when doing a git-archive from a
>    subdirectory:
>      $ git-archive --format=tar origin >/dev/null
>      $ cd Documentation
>      $ git-archive --format=tar origin >/dev/null
>      fatal: cannot read c87c61af00c6d2cd7212240e260809000000aaab
>    but I haven't been able to track it down further. It's clearly
>    unrelated to my patch, though.

I've noticed this while looking at your patch and fixed it in my
tree already.