On Thursday 17 May 2007, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 06:57:22PM +0200, Johan Herland wrote: > > Of course, it all depends on whether the $Id$ conversion is triggered by > > git-archive... > > Another possibility might be to add a commandline switch to git-archive > so you can decide whether the commit id should be added as a header to > the tar file (which it already supports) or as a ordinary file (which > should be reasonable trivial to implement). The question if whether > it would be worth to add that feature. Don't know if there are many > other users out there that need it. Although this efficiently solves Michael's problem, I still think the ideal solution would be for git-archive to do the same conversions/filters as a regular checkout would. Otherwise, we'll easily get into situations where a git-archive tree is different enough from a "regular" working tree to cause annoying differences in behaviour. Have fun! ...Johan -- Johan Herland, <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx> www.herland.net - 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
