René Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> writes:
> I don't know if it's a good idea, but perhaps we don't even need a new
> option. We could change how pathspecs of untracked files are handled:
> Instead of aborting we could include them in the archive. (Sounds like
> the simplest possible interface, but may have practical problems.)
One practical problem is that users who do this
$ git archive HEAD Documentation/ | tar tf -
would be expecting (at least) two different things, depending on the
situation they are in.
So at least you'd need an "--include-untracked" option, I guess.
