From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:00:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Creating a tarball out of a directory in a bare git repository
Message-ID: <86y6ibhckz.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <27750115.post@talk.nabble.com>

>>>>> "jateeq" == jateeq  <jawad_atiq@hotmail.com> writes:

jateeq> - list all the files/folders in the directory (i have the sha1 hash of the
jateeq> directory)
jateeq> - foreach file in the directory, get the file contents (recurse if there are
jateeq> further subdirectories). Probably store the result in an array. 
jateeq> - create a file somewhere on the filesystem out of each file output above.
jateeq> Store it under the directory name.
jateeq> - create a tarball out of the 'working' directory as usual.

Sounds like you're reinventing "git archive". :)

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