Hi Rene,
I wanted to do that myself, but I sadly miss the time right now, so I
wonder if you'd know how to do the following.
We have in our repository a kind of modular system (for a family of web
sites) where each web-site uses a (versionned) symlink farm. IOW it
works basically that way:
www/module1
www/module2
product_A/www/module1 -> ../../www/module1
product_A/www/module_A
product_B/www/module1 -> ../../www/module1
product_B/www/module2 -> ../../www/module2
product_B/www/module_B
Though product_A and _B even if they share a fair amount of code, are
separate products and when we release, we'd like to be able to perform
from inside:
git archive --format=tar -L product_$A
where -L basically does what it does in cp: dereference symlinks. To
make the thing hairier, we also have symlinks _inside_ www/ (pointing
into the same subtree) that we'd like to keep if possible (even if it's
not a big deal).
So I'd suggest something where -L only dereferences the symlink if it
goes outside of the list of paths passed to git-archive, and -LL (or -L
-L) dereferences anything. Of course this would only make sense if the
symlinks resolve to something that is tracked :)
For now we git archive the whole repository, use tar xh; rm what we
don't like, reset the symlinks we want to keep, and retar, which is kind
of counterproductive :)
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·O· Pierre Habouzit
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