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Re: [PATCH] git-archive: recursive prefix directory creation

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
May 19, 2007, 18:17 UTC
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René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:
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> Currently git-archive only adds a single directory entry for prefixes,
> e.g. for --prefix=a/b/c/ only the directory a/b/c/ would be added to
> the archive, not a/ nor a/b/.  While tar and unzip don't seem to have
> a problem handling these missing entries, their omission was not
> intended.

Until we start tracking directories (we briefly discussed, and I think I agree with Linus that it should not be too painful), I'd rather keep the current behaviour which I feel is more consistent with what we really are doing.

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