On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 07:16:24PM +0200, René Scharfe wrote: > >> git archive --format=tar -o my.tar --transform > >> 's,^Web/Templates/,myPath/myWeb/Templates/,' HEAD WebPortal/Templates/ > >> error: unknown option `transform' > > > > Yeah, that won't work, because there is no such option. We do have > > "--prefix", but I suspect that's not flexible enough for what you want. > > If you only need a single subdirectory with a custom prefix you could do > something like this (variables only used to keep the lines short): > > $ subdir=WebPortal/Templates > $ prefix=myPath/myWeb/Templates/ > $ (cd "$subdir" && git archive --prefix="$prefix" HEAD) >my.tar > > The output file can be specified with -o as well, of course, but you'd > either need to use an absolute path or add "../" for each directory > level you descend into (-o ../../my.tar in this case). Couldn't you also do: git archive --prefix=$prefix HEAD:$subdir >my.tar ? I guess that loses the pax header with the commit sha1 in it, though, because you are feeding a straight tree instead of a commit. We didn't when git-archive was written, but these days we have get_sha1_with_context to remember incidental things about an object we look up. It should perhaps remember the commit (if any) we used to reach a treeish, and then the above command line could still insert the pax header. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html