Re: [PATCH] git-archive: accept --owner and --group like GNU tar

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Date

Jan 4, 2018, 18:22 UTC

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René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:

> I don't know if it's a good idea, but perhaps we don't even need a new
> option.  We could change how pathspecs of untracked files are handled:
> Instead of aborting we could include them in the archive.  (Sounds like
> the simplest possible interface, but may have practical problems.)

One practical problem is that users who do this

    $ git archive HEAD Documentation/ | tar tf -

So at least you'd need an "--include-untracked" option, I guess.