# git-archive not working correctly ?

3 messages from 2007-09-16 to 2007-09-17. Participants: Niki Guldbrand, Frank Lichtenheld, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/9881

## Niki Guldbrand, 2007-09-16 22:50

Subject: git-archive not working correctly ?
Message-ID: <1189983026.22727.61.camel@niki2.guldbrand.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1189983026.22727.61.camel%40niki2.guldbrand.net

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Hi.

I have been playing with git-archive for and hour or so, but can't get
it to pass "extra" options to tar as it's documented that it should, or
am i reading the docs wrong ?

git-archive --format=<fmt> [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
[--remote=<repo>] <tree-ish> [path…]

<extra>
        This can be any options that the archiver backend understand.
        See next section.
        
I want to git tar the "--exclude=option", but i can't get it through.
Is this option only valid for the zip format with the options "-0" and
"-9" ?


Kind regards

Niki Guldbrand

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## Frank Lichtenheld, 2007-09-17 00:31

Subject: Re: git-archive not working correctly ?
Message-ID: <20070917003115.GV22865@planck.djpig.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070917003115.GV22865%40planck.djpig.de
In-Reply-To: <1189983026.22727.61.camel@niki2.guldbrand.net>

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On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 12:50:26AM +0200, Niki Guldbrand wrote:
> I have been playing with git-archive for and hour or so, but can't get
> it to pass "extra" options to tar as it's documented that it should, or
> am i reading the docs wrong ?
> 
> git-archive --format=<fmt> [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
> [--remote=<repo>] <tree-ish> [path…]
> 
> <extra>
>         This can be any options that the archiver backend understand.
>         See next section.
>         
> I want to git tar the "--exclude=option", but i can't get it through.
> Is this option only valid for the zip format with the options "-0" and
> "-9" ?

Yes. The tar backend currently doesn't support any extra options.

Gruesse,
-- 
Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
www: http://www.djpig.de/

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## Junio C Hamano, 2007-09-17 00:35

Subject: Re: git-archive not working correctly ?
Message-ID: <7vtzpu3z94.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vtzpu3z94.fsf%40gitster.siamese.dyndns.org
In-Reply-To: <1189983026.22727.61.camel@niki2.guldbrand.net>

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Niki Guldbrand <niki.guldbrand@gmail.com> writes:

> git-archive --format=<fmt> [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
> [--remote=<repo>] <tree-ish> [path...]
>
> <extra>
>         This can be any options that the archiver backend understand.
>         See next section.
>         
> I want to git tar the "--exclude=option", but i can't get it through.
> Is this option only valid for the zip format with the options "-0" and
> "-9" ?

The "next section" that sentence refers to is "BACKEND EXTRA
OPTIONS" section, which lists -0 and -9 for zip backend.  There
is no --exclude=option in either tar or zip backend.

Note that we do not use GNU tar or zip as archiver backends.

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