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Re: [RFC/PATCH v3 3/3] archive.c: add basic support for submodules

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LHLars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
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Jan 24, 2009, 20:02 UTC
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On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 20:52, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Lars Hjemli wrote:
>
>> $ git archive --submodules <tree-ish>: Create an archive which
>> includes the trees of all gitlink entries in <tree-ish>, fail unless
>> all the required objects are available.
>>
>> $ git archive --submodules=<group>: Same as above, but only traverse
>> submodules in the specified group (as defined in $GIT_CONFIG).
>
> How about having the former with --submodules='*' and let --submodules
> without argument include those submodules that are checked out (none in a
> bare repository)?

Yeah, that might make more sense (since you'd normally not have access to the content of non-checked out submodules). I'm also considering something like --submodules[=(all|checkedout|[group:]<name>)], i.e. the 'group:'-part could be optional as long as <name> is unambiguous.

-- larsh

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Message 16 of 19 in “Add support for `git archive --submodules`”
  1. 0/3 Add support for `git archive --submodules`Lars Hjemli, Jan 22, 2009
  2. 1/3 tree.c: teach read_tree_recursive how to traverse gitlink entriesLars Hjemli, Jan 22, 2009
  3. 2/3 sha1_file: prepare for adding alternates on demandLars Hjemli, Jan 22, 2009
  4. 3/3 archive.c: add basic support for submodulesLars Hjemli, Jan 22, 2009
  5. Johannes SchindelinJan 22, 2009
  6. Lars HjemliJan 23, 2009
  7. Junio C HamanoJan 23, 2009
  8. Lars HjemliJan 23, 2009
  9. Junio C HamanoJan 23, 2009
  10. Lars HjemliJan 23, 2009
  11. Johannes SchindelinJan 23, 2009
  12. Lars HjemliJan 24, 2009
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  14. Lars HjemliJan 24, 2009
  15. Johannes SchindelinJan 24, 2009
  16. Lars HjemliJan 24, 2009
  17. Johannes SchindelinJan 22, 2009
  18. Lars HjemliJan 23, 2009
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