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Re: git-archive and submodules

From
Whit Armstrong <armstrong.whit@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 29, 2008, 14:13 UTC
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<8ec76080803290713k71b7cb19xee2361035a71878d@mail.gmail.com>
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<20080329135202.GR4759@spearce.org>
as a first patch that might be a bit ambitious for me, but I will give it a try.
anyway, it's good to know that there is additional support for this behavior.
-Whit
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
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> Whit Armstrong <armstrong.whit@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Is there a way to ask git-archive to archive the submodules of the
>  > project as well?
>  >
>  > I have a project that needs it's submoduels distributed with it.
>
>  No.
>
>  Patches welcome.  :-)
>
>  We've talked about supporting it, and wouldn't mind having the
>  tool do it for exactly the reason you mention, but thus far a
>  patch has not been written to implement that.
>
>  --
>  Shawn.
>
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