Re: git-archive ignores submodules

From: Pedro Rodrigues <prodrigues1990@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 16, 2015, 18:09 UTC
Message-ID: <CAL1ZDKbcmrer481fRY2NEHUQ1J5tjRbHz2yLEcszh3Q-NjcvcQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150416175623.GJ21868@paksenarrion.iveqy.com>

Good to know about git submodule foreach.

Simpler yet, I'm using:

zip -r ../project.zip . -x *.git*

Which essentially does the same thing I would need from git-archive --recurse-submodule, zip everything excluding .git folders. Still would be better to use git itself.

2015-04-16 18:56 GMT+01:00 Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>:

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> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 06:35:38PM +0100, Pedro Rodrigues wrote:
>> I've been using git-archive as my main way of deploying to production
>> servers, but today I've come across a git repo with submodules and
>> found out that git archive has no option to include submodules on the
>> output archive.
>
> As far as I know this is an known limitation that's just waiting for
> someone to solve. Thanks for bringing attention to it.
>
>> This simply makes git-archive unusable on this scenario.
>
> Not completely. There's a simple workaround. Combine git submodule
> foreach with git archive and make an archive for each submodule.
>
> Not as simple as if git archive --recurse-submodule would have been
> implementet, but hopefully it can make things work for you at the
> moment.
>
> --
> Fredrik Gustafsson
>
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