In one of my small projects, I just tried to add an export-subst format to my version file to have the git version in the released tarball. However it seems git-archive --prefix="tarballname-version/" does not work well together with export-subst. I have very old git! (v1.5.4.4). So please help me and try to reproduce this with newer versions: The repo is publicly available at git clone git://repo.or.cz/dragbox.git The file in the repo having an export substitution format is Dragbox/version.py.in Now try to export the git tree with git-archive, with and without --prefix= We will do some hackery and grep the binary output. $ git archive HEAD | grep --text "git_version" git_version = "9c3f6c0af7e67a354cac9a24e24e2057d17778ef" $ git archive --prefix="dragbox-git/" HEAD | grep --text "git_version" git_version = "$Format:%H$" I noticed in another even smaller repository that it would not behave the same but equally spurious; it would only perform the substitution for some prefixes and not for others (for example with or without ending slash) Regards Ulrik Sverdrup -- 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
