I got too busy to continue working to get it included. Please feel free to pick up where I left off. Sent from my iPad On Apr 20, 2012, at 2:32 PM, André Caron <andre.l.caron@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > I've recently raised the same submodule issue with git-archive you and > Lars have in the past. > > What's the status on your application of the git-archive submodule > patch? Have you applied the changes suggested by Lens Lehmann[1]? > Your Git fork on GitHub[2] seems to have only applied Lars' patch and > an unrelated SVN glob fix... > > Since you've touched this only last year, I'd like to know where you > were at and I can see if I can pick up where you left off (unless you > want to finish yourself). > > Thanks, > André > > [1]: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/172851 > [2]: https://github.com/darconeous/git > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@xxxxxx> > Date: Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 4:11 AM > Subject: Re: git-archive and submodules > To: André Caron <andre.l.caron@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > 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