Re: Git archiving only branch work

Duy Nguyen [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:32:40PM +0000, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

quoted

[alias]
    deploy = !sh -c 'git archive --prefix=$1/ -o deploy_$1.zip HEAD 
$(git diff --name-only -D $2)' -

This works very well. The only problem we have so far is that if we 
have files with spaces in the name (eg: SQL update scripts), then the 
command breaks.

Does anybody have an idea on how this can be resolved?  Any help would 
be much appreciated.

Set $IFS to newline, so that $(git diff --name-only ...) output is
split at record boundaries, not inside pathnames?

A quick experiment you can do to convince yourself may be:

-- >8 --
#!/bin/sh

data () {
	echo "a"
	echo "b c" ;# SP in between
	echo "d	e " ;# HT and trailing SP
}

show () {
	for i
	do
		echo "<<$i>>"
	done
}

echo ONE
show $(data)

IFS='
'

echo TWO
show $(data)
-- 8< --

On the "git archive" invocation, there may be something that tells
the pathspecs are literal, like '--literal-pathspecs' option, to
avoid metacharacters from being expanded, though.