On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 09:31:24PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > I noticed that "git archive" will barf when the root tree is empty. > [...] > I didn't bother even looking at empty subtrees. AFAIK, git should never > produce them (it omits the tree entirely if there is no content in it). > You would have to fake it using hash-object manually. I suspect it would > work just fine, as we already exercise the empty-dir code paths in the > tests I did add. Curious, I went ahead and tested this. It does indeed work as expected. The following tests can be squashed into patch 2/2 if we want: diff --git a/t/t5004-archive-corner-cases.sh b/t/t5004-archive-corner-cases.sh index 395dd58..cdb7d7a 100755 --- a/t/t5004-archive-corner-cases.sh +++ b/t/t5004-archive-corner-cases.sh @@ -80,4 +80,23 @@ test_expect_success 'archive complains about pathspec on empty tree' ' test_must_fail git archive --format=tar HEAD -- foo >/dev/null ' +test_expect_success 'create a commit with an empty subtree' ' + empty_tree=$(git hash-object -t tree /dev/null) && + root_tree=$(printf "040000 tree $empty_tree\tsub\n" | git mktree) +' + +test_expect_success 'archive empty subtree with no pathspec' ' + git archive --format=tar $root_tree >subtree-all.tar && + make_dir extract && + "$TAR" xf subtree-all.tar -C extract && + check_dir extract sub +' + +test_expect_success 'archive empty subtree by direct pathspec' ' + git archive --format=tar $root_tree -- sub >subtree-path.tar && + make_dir extract && + "$TAR" xf subtree-path.tar -C extract && + check_dir extract sub +' + test_done -- 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