Re: git-archive for files changed in revision range

> We have a small project that is being managed in a Git repository 
> (MSysGit to be exact) - mostly for backups and so on. The project is a 
> mod for the computer game Civilization 4. (Actually a mod of a mod, but 
> still...)  As such, to release the mod to other people to actually use 
> the only thing that needs to be released is all of the files that have 
> actually been changed. (The actual git repository contains ~700MB of 
> files, the vast majority of which haven't changed since the initial 
> import and so don't need to be downloaded by people).
> 
> I've managed to make it produce an archive that contains only the files 
> that have changed by using a combination of git-archive and 
> git-whatchanged, along with grep and sed, but it's kinda unwieldly. Is 
> there a better way of doing this?
> 
> The command line I used was something like (This is mostly from memory):
> git-archive --format=zip . `git-whatchanged <start>..HEAD --pretty=oneline 
>   | grep '^:' | sed 's/^.*\t//'` > release.zip
> 
> To produce a zip containing all of the modified and added files for the 
> revision range <start>..HEAD.