From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 22:34:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Passing commit IDs to git-archive
Message-ID: <7vhaxx4d5s.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <8fb14091-99dc-4383-9cab-5bf508e0a554@mail>

Stephen Bash <bash@genarts.com> writes:

> Unfortunately I just attempted
>
>   warp:bar bash$ git archive --remote=file:///Users/bash/Development/foo \
>                              --output=test.tgz 3b9e49b \
>                              path/to/subdir
>
> Thoughts?  Thanks in advance!

If you are always fetching from that same location, perhaps doing
this only once

	git clone file:///...

and then every time you want to use the test.tgz, do something like

	git fetch
        git archive --output=test.tgz 3b9e49b path/to/subdir

or something like that?