Am 19.04.2012 22:10, schrieb André Caron: > Hi, > > I've recently needed to create a source code archive as part of a > custom build target. This repository uses submodules and I need to > include the submodlule's source code in the archives too. However, > git-archive does not have any option to do so. > > I've taken a quick look at the GMANE mailing list archives and it > seems this provoked quite a discussion in 2009 and that Lars Hjemli > even wrote a patch (in several flavors) for archive.c to include > submodule-aware processing. The lastest source code at > `git.kernel.org` does not contain any traces of this patch (or > submodule aware logic for that matter). The mailing list archives are > not very convenient to browse and I can't figure out what the status > on this submodule-aware git-archive idea is. Has this idea been > completely rejected, or is it still work in progress? The idea is not rejected, this would be a worthwhile addition. It has been brought up again last May, but as far as I know it is stalled since then: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/172851 -- 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