Fwd: git-archive and submodules

From: André Caron <andre.l.caron@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 20, 2012, 18:32 UTC
Message-ID: <CALKBF2jzL5-mHaVi1erA=EiF_DALF1Rvwv7yB5CfdEdQa2ZhBg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F911A2C.4070306@web.de>

Hi Robert,

I've recently raised the same submodule issue with git-archive you and Lars have in the past.

What's the status on your application of the git-archive submodule patch? Have you applied the changes suggested by Lens Lehmann[1]? Your Git fork on GitHub[2] seems to have only applied Lars' patch and an unrelated SVN glob fix...

Since you've touched this only last year, I'd like to know where you were at and I can see if I can pick up where you left off (unless you want to finish yourself).

Thanks, André

[1]: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/172851 [2]: https://github.com/darconeous/git

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From: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Date: Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 4:11 AM
Subject: Re: git-archive and submodules
To: André Caron <andre.l.caron@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org

Am 19.04.2012 22:10, schrieb André Caron:

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> Hi,
>
> I've recently needed to create a source code archive as part of a
> custom build target.  This repository uses submodules and I need to
> include the submodlule's source code in the archives too.  However,
> git-archive does not have any option to do so.
>
> I've taken a quick look at the GMANE mailing list archives and it
> seems this provoked quite a discussion in 2009 and that Lars Hjemli
> even wrote a patch (in several flavors) for archive.c to include
> submodule-aware processing.  The lastest source code at
> `git.kernel.org` does not contain any traces of this patch (or
> submodule aware logic for that matter).  The mailing list archives are
> not very convenient to browse and I can't figure out what the status
> on this submodule-aware git-archive idea is.  Has this idea been
> completely rejected, or is it still work in progress?

The idea is not rejected, this would be a worthwhile addition. It has been brought up again last May, but as far as I know it is stalled since then: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/172851