From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 18:22:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-archive: accept --owner and --group like GNU tar
Message-ID: <xmqqmv1tfpqh.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <f7654cd9-2cd0-0775-3b10-8e3dc1a66dae@web.de>

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 -

would be expecting (at least) two different things, depending on the
situation they are in.

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