Re: Adding files to a git-archive when it is generated, and whats the best way to find out what branch a commit is on?

2009/7/31 Jakub Narebski [off-list ref]:

demerphq [off-list ref] writes:

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2009/7/30 René Scharfe [off-list ref]:

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demerphq schrieb:

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So then git also would benefit from support in git-archive for adding
arbitrary files to the archive during generation?

Yes, and this has come up before.

How about the following?  It's missing documentation and a test case,
but you could try

       $ git archive --add-file extra HEAD>HEAD+extra.tar

or

       $ git archive --prefix=a/ --add-file extra --prefix=b/ HEAD>ba.tar

I havent managed to try it out yet but this is pretty much exactly
what I was looking for. Only thought I had was that it might be nice
to be able to specify what name the file should be added as so that
you can add files to subpaths deeper than the root/root prefix of the
tar. However for /my/ particular purposes that is unnecessary, it only
occurs to me as a nice to have. But if you were inclined to think
about extending it I was thinking an argument notation like --add-file
foo:bar/baz/bop might be useful.

Why not use notation used by --graft-points option of mkisofs, i.e.
"--add-file foo=bar/baz/bop", where 'foo' is name in archive
(respective to prefix if any, I think), and 'bar/baz/bop' is name in
filesystem.

The proposed notation "--add-file foo:bar/baz/bop" looks for me (see
extended sha-1 syntax in git-rev-parse manpage) like adding file
'bar/baz/bop' from 'foo' tree-ish.

Whatever is most appropriate. I was just demonstrating what I had in mind.

cheers,
Yves


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