From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 18:17:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-archive: recursive prefix directory creation
Message-ID: <7vbqggy8ym.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <464EE169.30306@lsrfire.ath.cx>

René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:

> 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.