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From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Subject: git archive without path
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:32:03 +0300
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Hi!

I have never run "git archive" inside of a subdirectory but somehow I
have always assumed that it creates an archive containing all files in
it regardless the current directory. In fact, the git-archive man page
says so:

path
    If one or more paths are specified, include only these in the
    archive, otherwise include all files and subdirectories.


But it turned out that "git archive" works as "git archive .", i.e.
adds files starting with the current directory. Is any rational for
this behavior? It smells to me like a bug rather than a feature. I
cannot imagine wanting to create archive containing just part of the
whole repository just because he happened to be in that directory,
and documentation clearly says that all files should be added unless
one or more paths are specified.


Dmitry