Sergio Callegari <sergio.callegari@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Unless Y is also in the tracked project... > ... > Note that if Y is outside of the tracked project and I make an archive, > and then I give the archive to my friend X, Mr. X will see the same > symbolic link, but still a completely and randomly different content > than I do, depending on where he is unpacking the archive. If you _do_ keep track of Y in a separate repository, I think two archives (the one that has a pointer to Y, and the other that is taken from the repository Y _at the revision you are using_), would solve that more naturally. Then the version markers recorded in the archives would still be valid. Side note. If we ever teach git-archive to create a recursive tarball that contains a submodule, we should be doing something like that, not necessarily as two separate tarballs but possibly with a single tarball that has two comments that describe the revision of the toplevel and the submodule. > ... In the end git archive is a nice shorthand for a checkout and a > successive run of zip or tar and both zip and tar have a switch to > control this dereferencing behaviour (BTW, zip on my distro dereferences > by default, the switch is to store symbolic links). Under such an option, at least the comment in the archive (both for zip and tar) that notes which revision the tarball was taken from should be omitted. As long as that is done, I think it is Ok to have such an optional behaviour. -- 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
