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Re: [PATCH 6/8] archive: use index instead of parsing tree directly

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 8, 2009, 19:20 UTC
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Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy  <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
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> Currently:
>
>  - "git archive" parses trees directly
>  - attr mechanism does not support in-tree attributes
>
> Making attr.c support in-tree attributes is quite a non-trivial task,
> IMHO. Instead this patch makes "git archive" read tree to index first,
> then start exporting from there.
>
> One minor regression: "git archive" now will no longer generate
> directory entries, only files.

Hmmm, if you read_tree() into the_index upfront and do not change anything else to the archive.c code, shouldn't it work without such a regression at all? Am I missing something?

It would allow you to export the index into an archive, but I doubt it is worth the amount of code churn.

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Message 12 of 24 in “support "in-tree attributes" for git-archive”
  1. 0/8 support "in-tree attributes" for git-archiveNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Apr 8, 2009
  2. 1/8 archive: add shortcuts for --format and --prefixNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Apr 8, 2009
  3. 2/8 move prune_cache() to git libNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Apr 8, 2009
  4. 3/8 archive: add a failure test wrt .gitattributes misreadingNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Apr 8, 2009
  5. 4/8 archive: add tests for directory selectionNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Apr 8, 2009
  6. 5/8 attr: add GIT_ATTR_INDEX "direction"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Apr 8, 2009
  7. 6/8 archive: use index instead of parsing tree directlyNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Apr 8, 2009
  8. 7/8 archive: disregard .gitattributes on working directoryNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Apr 8, 2009
  9. 8/8 archive: support creating archives from indexNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Apr 8, 2009
  10. René ScharfeApr 8, 2009
  11. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2009
  12. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2009
  13. René ScharfeApr 8, 2009
  14. René ScharfeApr 8, 2009
  15. René ScharfeApr 8, 2009
  16. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2009
  17. René ScharfeApr 13, 2009
  18. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyApr 14, 2009
  19. René ScharfeApr 14, 2009
  20. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2009
  21. René ScharfeApr 17, 2009
  22. Junio C HamanoApr 18, 2009
  23. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2009
  24. René ScharfeApr 8, 2009

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