Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> I've been using (in my non-git related project aka day-job)
>
> git-tar-tree HEAD^{tree} $(PROJECT)-$(RELNAME) >$(PROJECT)-$(RELNAME).tar
>
> to avoid this. Although all of my target machines have gtar that are
> recent enough so I do not need it, but when the tarball has version
> string in its name, there is not much point having the pax header to
> identify the contents (where the pax header shines is when the result
> does not have the version string in its name).
>
> This might be a sensible thing to do for our dist target as well.
> The product of our dist target is for people who build from the
> source to bootstrap themselves (if they have git, then fetching the
> source using git is preferred anyway), as opposed to using pre-built
> binaries, so being as friendly as we can to different implementations
> of tar is a good thing.
Hrm. Is the header really that unfriendly? With a non-POSIX tar you
get an extra file and a nice, if somewhat cryptic, reminder to upgrade
your archiver. ;-) Seriously, this is way below my annoyance-radar,
but I'm obviously biased.
What do you think about the following patch for starters? It adds an
example to the git-tar-tree documentation showing your "tree trick"
and corrects two formatting buglets.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
index 831537b..c93a8fe 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
@@ -45,11 +45,16 @@ git tar-tree HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && mkd
latest commit on the current branch, and extracts it in
`/var/tmp/junk` directory.
-git tar-tree v2.6.17 linux-2.6.17 | gzip >linux-2.6.17.tar.gz
+git tar-tree v2.6.17 linux-2.6.17 | gzip >linux-2.6.17.tar.gz::
Create a tarball for v2.6.17 release.
-git tar-tree --remote=example.com:git.git v0.99 >git-0.99.tar
+git tar-tree v2.6.17{caret}\{tree\} linux-2.6.17 | gzip >linux-2.6.17.tar.gz::
+
+ Create a tarball for v2.6.17 release, but without a
+ global extended pax header.
+
+git tar-tree --remote=example.com:git.git v0.99 >git-0.99.tar::
Get a tarball v0.99 from example.com.
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