Junio C Hamano schrieb: > René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Currently git-archive only adds a single directory entry for prefixes, >> e.g. for --prefix=a/b/c/ only the directory a/b/c/ would be added to >> the archive, not a/ nor a/b/. While tar and unzip don't seem to have >> a problem handling these missing entries, their omission was not >> intended. > > Until we start tracking directories (we briefly discussed, and I > think I agree with Linus that it should not be too painful), I'd > rather keep the current behaviour which I feel is more > consistent with what we really are doing. Hmm, fair enough. I started out with a simple cleanup and then I guess went a bit overboard with that overblown path walker. :-] René - 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