# git-archive ignores submodules 7 messages from 2015-04-16 to 2015-04-20. Participants: Pedro Rodrigues, Fredrik Gustafsson, Jens Lehmann, Kevin Daudt, Chris Packham. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/39096 ## Pedro Rodrigues, 2015-04-16 17:35 Subject: git-archive ignores submodules Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAL1ZDKZs%2B%2BNkLoHZ_w_YebQuZYG3rgAiH5SsaQfTmb9MPHjR3w%40mail.gmail.com ``` I've been using git-archive as my main way of deploying to production servers, but today I've come across a git repo with submodules and found out that git archive has no option to include submodules on the output archive. This simply makes git-archive unusable on this scenario. -- Pedro Rodrigues +244 917 774 823 +351 969 042 335 Mail: prodrigues1990@gmail.com ``` ## Fredrik Gustafsson, 2015-04-16 17:56 Subject: Re: git-archive ignores submodules Message-ID: <20150416175623.GJ21868@paksenarrion.iveqy.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20150416175623.GJ21868%40paksenarrion.iveqy.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 06:35:38PM +0100, Pedro Rodrigues wrote: > I've been using git-archive as my main way of deploying to production > servers, but today I've come across a git repo with submodules and > found out that git archive has no option to include submodules on the > output archive. As far as I know this is an known limitation that's just waiting for someone to solve. Thanks for bringing attention to it. > This simply makes git-archive unusable on this scenario. Not completely. There's a simple workaround. Combine git submodule foreach with git archive and make an archive for each submodule. Not as simple as if git archive --recurse-submodule would have been implementet, but hopefully it can make things work for you at the moment. -- Fredrik Gustafsson phone: +46 733-608274 e-mail: iveqy@iveqy.com website: http://www.iveqy.com ``` ## Pedro Rodrigues, 2015-04-16 18:09 Subject: Re: git-archive ignores submodules Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAL1ZDKbcmrer481fRY2NEHUQ1J5tjRbHz2yLEcszh3Q-NjcvcQ%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20150416175623.GJ21868@paksenarrion.iveqy.com> ``` Good to know about git submodule foreach. Simpler yet, I'm using: zip -r ../project.zip . -x *.git* Which essentially does the same thing I would need from git-archive --recurse-submodule, zip everything excluding .git folders. Still would be better to use git itself. 2015-04-16 18:56 GMT+01:00 Fredrik Gustafsson : > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 06:35:38PM +0100, Pedro Rodrigues wrote: >> I've been using git-archive as my main way of deploying to production >> servers, but today I've come across a git repo with submodules and >> found out that git archive has no option to include submodules on the >> output archive. > > As far as I know this is an known limitation that's just waiting for > someone to solve. Thanks for bringing attention to it. > >> This simply makes git-archive unusable on this scenario. > > Not completely. There's a simple workaround. Combine git submodule > foreach with git archive and make an archive for each submodule. > > Not as simple as if git archive --recurse-submodule would have been > implementet, but hopefully it can make things work for you at the > moment. > > -- > Fredrik Gustafsson > > phone: +46 733-608274 > e-mail: iveqy@iveqy.com > website: http://www.iveqy.com -- Pedro Rodrigues +244 917 774 823 +351 969 042 335 Mail: prodrigues1990@gmail.com ``` ## Jens Lehmann, 2015-04-16 19:03 Subject: Re: git-archive ignores submodules Message-ID: <5530076E.50605@web.de> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/5530076E.50605%40web.de In-Reply-To: ``` Am 16.04.2015 um 20:09 schrieb Pedro Rodrigues: > Good to know about git submodule foreach. > > Simpler yet, I'm using: > > zip -r ../project.zip . -x *.git* > > Which essentially does the same thing I would need from git-archive > --recurse-submodule, zip everything excluding .git folders. Still > would be better to use git itself. Yes. > 2015-04-16 18:56 GMT+01:00 Fredrik Gustafsson : >> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 06:35:38PM +0100, Pedro Rodrigues wrote: >>> I've been using git-archive as my main way of deploying to production >>> servers, but today I've come across a git repo with submodules and >>> found out that git archive has no option to include submodules on the >>> output archive. >> >> As far as I know this is an known limitation that's just waiting for >> someone to solve. Thanks for bringing attention to it. I just rebased a patch Lars Hjemli posted in 2009 (which I kept in my GitHub repo to resurrect it when I find the time) to current master: https://github.com/jlehmann/git-submod-enhancements/commits/archive--submodules See gmane/$107030 for its original posting. Apart from renaming the '--submodule' option to '--recurse-submodules' and solving a merge conflict I didn't change anything. Not sure why it wasn't accepted back then, I'll have to read that thread more closely ... If people are interested I could try to polish it and resubmit it. It would be great if Pedro could test that it does what he expects. ``` ## Pedro Rodrigues, 2015-04-16 19:59 Subject: Re: git-archive ignores submodules Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAL1ZDKbvNvTA3CFg5iWMYpOVDbxFwtpFCu%2BPO2onssO%3D%2Bpw5XQ%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <5530076E.50605@web.de> ``` I sure can. Just send me an ID I can pull and test in here (not really into C, so this the least I can contribute). Although, my expectations are very simple, I just expect(ed) the exact same git-archive command to be run on submodule(s), and have an output on a single zip|tar|whatever file. Not completely off topic, but for consistency consider that: git-clone supports --recursive and --recurse-submodules, which do the same thing. git-pull and git-push only support --recurse-submodules. ``` ## Kevin Daudt, 2015-04-19 16:19 Subject: Re: git-archive ignores submodules Message-ID: <20150419161939.GC29542@vps892.directvps.nl> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20150419161939.GC29542%40vps892.directvps.nl In-Reply-To: <5530076E.50605@web.de> ``` On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 09:03:10PM +0200, Jens Lehmann wrote: > Am 16.04.2015 um 20:09 schrieb Pedro Rodrigues: > > If people are interested I could try to polish it and resubmit it. > It would be great if Pedro could test that it does what he expects. I'm certainly interested. ``` ## Chris Packham, 2015-04-20 08:51 Subject: Re: git-archive ignores submodules Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAFOYHZAZvidjtTzyhF2_nD_bi27H-h%3DGT4F-MKm%2Bh3RT5LB_gw%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Pedro Rodrigues wrote: > Not completely off topic, but for consistency consider that: > git-clone supports --recursive and --recurse-submodules, which do the > same thing. > git-pull and git-push only support --recurse-submodules. It took a while to get the terminology sorted but the eventual agreement[1] was "--recurse-submodules" was the best generally applicable flag for all commands. For backwards compatibility some commands that already had "--recursive" as an option have retained it -- [1] - http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/160634 ```