René Scharfe [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

	$ cd some/deep/place
	... work work work
	$ git archive --full-tree :/other :/hier :/archy

is what I had in mind.  Without --full-tree, due to the first bullet
point above, paths in our archive are relative to some/deep/place.

I don't see the difference.

OK.  I do not work in Java anyway ;-)