Re: What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2020, #05; Fri, 18)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 19, 2020, 22:35 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqy2l5iedh.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <b7ef3952-872a-40af-0f2e-c392b031a280@web.de>

René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:

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> Am 19.09.20 um 03:41 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
>> * jc/dist-tarball-tweak (2020-09-09) 1 commit
>>   (merged to 'next' on 2020-09-10 at 36cbe7ee9e)
>>  + Makefile: allow extra tweaking of distribution tarball
>>
>>  Allow maintainers to tweak $(TAR) invocations done while making
>>  distribution tarballs.
>
> Just noticed this one.  It reminds me of an alternative solution for
> archives containing both tracked and untracked files gathering dust on
> my disk because I didn't see much demand.  It goes the other way and
> gives untracked files the same meta data as tracked ones.  Interested?
>
>   archive: read short blobs in archive.c::write_archive_entry()
>   archive: add --add-file
>   Makefile: use git-archive --add-file

Oooh, so is the idea that we do not have to use $(TAR) to append untracked ones to "git archive" output, etc.? If we can get rid of all $(TAR) invocations from the build procedure, that would be an interesting addition.

;-)

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>  Documentation/git-archive.txt |   6 ++
>  Makefile                      |  41 ++++++------
>  archive-tar.c                 |  22 +------
>  archive-zip.c                 |  22 ++-----
>  archive.c                     | 117 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  archive.h                     |   9 ++-
>  t/t5000-tar-tree.sh           |  29 +++++++++
>  t/t5003-archive-zip.sh        |  28 ++++++++
>  8 files changed, 203 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.28.0