Re: Adding files to a git-archive when it is generated, and whats the best way to find out what branch a commit is on?

> demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> writes:
>> 2009/7/30 René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>:
>> > demerphq schrieb:
>
>>>> So then git also would benefit from support in git-archive for adding
>>>> arbitrary files to the archive during generation?
>>>
>>> Yes, and this has come up before.
>>>
>>> How about the following?  It's missing documentation and a test case,
>>> but you could try
>>>
>>>        $ git archive --add-file extra HEAD>HEAD+extra.tar
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>>        $ git archive --prefix=a/ --add-file extra --prefix=b/ HEAD>ba.tar
>>
>> I havent managed to try it out yet but this is pretty much exactly
>> what I was looking for. Only thought I had was that it might be nice
>> to be able to specify what name the file should be added as so that
>> you can add files to subpaths deeper than the root/root prefix of the
>> tar. However for /my/ particular purposes that is unnecessary, it only
>> occurs to me as a nice to have. But if you were inclined to think
>> about extending it I was thinking an argument notation like --add-file
>> foo:bar/baz/bop might be useful.
>
> Why not use notation used by --graft-points option of mkisofs, i.e.
> "--add-file foo=bar/baz/bop", where 'foo' is name in archive
> (respective to prefix if any, I think), and 'bar/baz/bop' is name in
> filesystem.
>
> The proposed notation "--add-file foo:bar/baz/bop" looks for me (see
> extended sha-1 syntax in git-rev-parse manpage) like adding file
> 'bar/baz/bop' from 'foo' tree-ish.