# git-archive and submodules

3 messages from 2009-07-20 to 2009-07-20. Participants: Woody Gilk, Avery Pennarun, Thomas Rast.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/20169

## Woody Gilk, 2009-07-20 16:22

Subject: git-archive and submodules
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I would find it hugely valuable if git-archive would support
submodules, rather than leaving empty files in the place of
submodules. Supporting submodules is critical to packaging releases
(combined with signed tags). With git-archive not support submodules,
it means that I have to manually package and sign each release, rather
than using git-tag.

This seems like it should be a fairly trivial thing to support,
possibly with the addition of a --with-submodules parameter for
git-archive to avoid backwards compatibility issues.

Thank you,
-Woody Gilk
Lead Developer of Kohana PHP Framework

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## Avery Pennarun, 2009-07-20 17:33

Subject: Re: git-archive and submodules
Message-ID: <32541b130907201033r68da33f7tba3b0f0200212724@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/32541b130907201033r68da33f7tba3b0f0200212724%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <41ceb5540907200922r5decb047h75e723a1809b587e@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Woody Gilk<woody.gilk@kohanaphp.com> wrote:
> I would find it hugely valuable if git-archive would support
> submodules, rather than leaving empty files in the place of
> submodules. Supporting submodules is critical to packaging releases
> (combined with signed tags). With git-archive not support submodules,
> it means that I have to manually package and sign each release, rather
> than using git-tag.

<shameless-plug> This works already today if you use git-subtree[1]
instead of submodules. </shameless-plug>

Have fun,

Avery

[1] http://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree

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## Thomas Rast, 2009-07-20 20:56

Subject: Re: git-archive and submodules
Message-ID: <200907202256.26669.trast@student.ethz.ch>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200907202256.26669.trast%40student.ethz.ch
In-Reply-To: <41ceb5540907200922r5decb047h75e723a1809b587e@mail.gmail.com>

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Woody Gilk wrote:
> I would find it hugely valuable if git-archive would support
> submodules, rather than leaving empty files in the place of
> submodules.

Such support was already in the pipeline before 1.6.2, see this
thread:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107030

Lars' series is still available from the repo mentioned in one of the
messages

  git://hjemli.net/pub/git/git lh/traverse-gitlinks

but does not merge into master cleanly any more, because an earlier
version of the first commit (of now three) made it into 1.6.2.  For
your testing convenience, I rebased the other two commits on 'master'
and pushed them to

  git://repo.or.cz/git/trast.git lh/traverse-gitlinks-on-master

All conflicts were trivial, but I made a minor change: there's already
a t5001 from 8aece7f (archive test: attributes, 2009-04-18), so I
renamed it to t5002 in the tip commit.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

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