From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 20:22:07 GMT
Subject: Re: how to git-archive ignore some files?
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805082118390.30431@racer>
In-Reply-To: <20080508170442.GK9562@eratosthenes.sbcglobal.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 8 May 2008, David Bryson wrote:

> On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 03:15:31PM -0300 or thereabouts, Victor Bogado da Silva Lins wrote:
> > I want to use git-archive to create source packages, but my git 
> > repository has a .gitignore that I don't want to be pushed into the 
> > archive. So is it possible to keep the .gitignore file in the 
> > repository and create an archive(*) without it?
> > 
> > *) using git-archive, off course. 
> 
> Others already discussed the --delete method with tar, [...]

I wonder if the most natural way with Git would not be to create a 
throw-away tree:

cp .git/index .git/tmp-index &&
GIT_INDEX_FILE=.git/tmp-index git rm --cached .gitignore &&
git archive $(GIT_INDEX_FILE=.git/tmp-index git write-tree) &&
rm .git/tmp-index

WARNING: this has not seen any testing.

Ciao,
Dscho