From: Sergio Callegari <sergio.callegari@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:20:16 GMT
Subject: Re: symbolic link management in git-archive
Message-ID: <loom.20080327T191845-374@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vd4pg9edm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster <at> pobox.com> writes:

> 
> Under such an option, at least the comment in the archive (both for zip
> and tar) that notes which revision the tarball was taken from should be
> omitted.  As long as that is done, I think it is Ok to have such an
> optional behaviour.
> 

yes, I overlooked this, but it makes perfect sense: if it is not an exact copy
of the tracked state, it should not pretend to be so by indicating a revision.