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From: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Subject: Re: git-archive not working correctly ?
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:31:15 +0200
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 12:50:26AM +0200, Niki Guldbrand wrote:
> I have been playing with git-archive for and hour or so, but can't ge=
t
> it to pass "extra" options to tar as it's documented that it should, =
or
> am i reading the docs wrong ?
>=20
> git-archive --format=3D<fmt> [--list] [--prefix=3D<prefix>/] [<extra>=
]
> [--remote=3D<repo>] <tree-ish> [path=E2=80=A6]
>=20
> <extra>
>         This can be any options that the archiver backend understand.
>         See next section.
>        =20
> I want to git tar the "--exclude=3Doption", but i can't get it throug=
h.
> Is this option only valid for the zip format with the options "-0" an=
d
> "-9" ?

Yes. The tar backend currently doesn't support any extra options.

Gruesse,
--=20
=46rank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
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