From: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
To: "André Caron" <andre.l.caron@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-archive and submodules
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:11:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F911A2C.4070306@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALKBF2gwVr0rPn0y8=cvwqOsUb7eQPH7EdK5U+gfZMzh=RpiKw@mail.gmail.com>
Am 19.04.2012 22:10, schrieb André Caron:
> Hi,
>
> I've recently needed to create a source code archive as part of a
> custom build target. This repository uses submodules and I need to
> include the submodlule's source code in the archives too. However,
> git-archive does not have any option to do so.
>
> I've taken a quick look at the GMANE mailing list archives and it
> seems this provoked quite a discussion in 2009 and that Lars Hjemli
> even wrote a patch (in several flavors) for archive.c to include
> submodule-aware processing. The lastest source code at
> `git.kernel.org` does not contain any traces of this patch (or
> submodule aware logic for that matter). The mailing list archives are
> not very convenient to browse and I can't figure out what the status
> on this submodule-aware git-archive idea is. Has this idea been
> completely rejected, or is it still work in progress?
The idea is not rejected, this would be a worthwhile addition. It has
been brought up again last May, but as far as I know it is stalled
since then:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/172851
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-20 8:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-19 20:10 git-archive and submodules André Caron
2012-04-20 8:11 ` Jens Lehmann [this message]
2012-04-20 18:32 ` Fwd: " André Caron
2012-04-22 18:47 ` Robert Quattlebaum
2013-10-10 14:09 ` Damien Regad
2013-10-10 19:22 ` Amit Bakshi
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2016-10-26 20:37 Anatoly Borodin
2016-10-26 21:04 ` Stefan Beller
2009-07-20 16:22 Woody Gilk
2009-07-20 17:33 ` Avery Pennarun
2009-07-20 20:56 ` Thomas Rast
2008-03-29 13:47 Whit Armstrong
2008-03-29 13:52 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-03-29 14:13 ` Whit Armstrong
2008-03-29 21:05 ` CJ van den Berg
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