From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 21:00:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Commit ID in exported Tar Ball
Message-ID: <7vd50wv88t.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <464F5CA2.3070809@lsrfire.ath.cx>

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

> Something like the following patch?  Since we're already embedding the
> commit ID in a comment, we might as well offer creating a synthetic file
> for it, too, if that solves a user's problem that might be difficult to
> work around otherwise.

Are you detecting and erroring out if the named file already
exists in the tree being archived?

Should we?  Maybe we should just replace with warning?

Also should we silently ignore the request if the tree-ish is
not a commit-ish, or error out?