Re: how to git-archive ignore some files?

René Scharfe [off-list ref] writes:

To really solve this without external tools, git-archive needed to grow
an --exclude option like git-ls-files, though.

Because exclude is never about ignoring what is already tracked, an option
"like" git-ls-files would not help this case, I am afraid.

Junio C Hamano schrieb:

René Scharfe [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

To really solve this without external tools, git-archive needed to
grow an --exclude option like git-ls-files, though.

Because exclude is never about ignoring what is already tracked, an
option "like" git-ls-files would not help this case, I am afraid.

True, it should be named differently, e.g. --ignore.

Another idea: would it make sense to have an attribute for that instead
(or in addition to the command line parameter)?  I.e. files marked
export-ignore would not end up in the archive.  I suspect the set of
files to ignore doesn't change from archive to archive one creates.

René