On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:08:29 -0400, Deskin Miller wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 08:42:01AM +0000, kenneth johansson wrote: >> I was going to make a tar of the latest stable linux kernel. Done it >> before but now I got a strange problem. >> >> >git archive --format=tar v2.6.27.2 >> fatal: Not a valid object name > > I had the same thing happen to me, while trying to make an archive of > Git. Were you perchance working in a bare repository, as I was? I spent > some time looking at it and I think git archive sets up the environment > in the wrong order, though of course I never finished a patch so I'm > going from memory: Yes it was a bare repository. > > After looking at the code again, I think the issue is that git_config is > called in builtin-archive.c:cmd_archive before setup_git_directory is > called in archive.c:write_archive. The former ends up setting GIT_DIR > to be '.git' even if you're in a bare repository. My coding skills > weren't up to fixing it easily; moving setup_git_directory before > git_config in builtin-archive caused last test of t5000 to fail: > GIT_DIR=some/nonexistent/path git archive --list should still display > the archive formats. if I do GIT_DIR=. git archive --format=tar v2.6.27.2 it does work so it looks like you are on the right track. -- 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
