From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:22:54 GMT
Subject: Re: How to archive repo from sub-directory
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf0803102022s3cefd1d0jcea74fcf5ac69f6c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <18389.54080.211086.922039@lisa.zopyra.com>

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 7:33 AM, Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> wrote:
> If I have a git repo with several levels of sub-directories, how
>  do I get git-archive to archive the entire tree, and not just
>  the tree from where I am?  Example:
>
>  % cd foo
>  % cat .git/description
>  foo project
>  % cd bar/baz
>  % git archive --format=tar --prefix=foo/ HEAD | bzip2 > foo.tar.bz2
>
>  produces a tar file starting only at baz.
>
>  If I can't conjur this on the command line with a clever argument to
>  git archive (I've tried several), then how would I ask git "What is
>  your top-level directory" so at least I could write a script to
>  do this?

You can move back to top-level dir with "cd $(git rev-parse
--show-cdup)". Another way is take "git rev-parse --show-prefix"
result (which would be "bar/baz/") and process it yourself.
-- 
Duy