From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:31:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix archive format with -- on the command line
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In-Reply-To: <7vhbry8l54.fsf_-_@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Giving --format from the command line, or using output file extention to
> DWIM the output format, with a pathspec that is disambiguated with an
> explicit double-dash on the command line, e.g.
>
>     git archive -o file --format=zip HEAD -- path
>     git archive -o file.zip HEAD -- path
>
> didn't work correctly.
>
> This was because the code reordered (when one was given) or added (when
> the former was inferred) a --format argument at the end, effectively
> making it to "archive HEAD -- path --format=zip", i.e. an extra pathspec
> that is unlikely to match anything.

A side note to this issue is that

    $ git add non-existing-path

complains but

    $ git archive HEAD non-existing-path

doesn't.  Is this something we should consider a bug, or a feature?