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Re: how to git-archive ignore some files?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 6, 2008, 22:08 UTC
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René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:
> To really solve this without external tools, git-archive needed to grow
> an --exclude option like git-ls-files, though.

Because exclude is never about ignoring what is already tracked, an option "like" git-ls-files would not help this case, I am afraid.

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