From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Lehmann Subject: Re: git-archive and submodules Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:11:24 +0200 Message-ID: <4F911A2C.4070306@web.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcsOpIENhcm9u?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 20 10:12:00 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SL8wh-0003cD-V7 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:12:00 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754537Ab2DTILy convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2012 04:11:54 -0400 Received: from fmmailgate05.web.de ([217.72.192.243]:45413 "EHLO fmmailgate05.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753006Ab2DTILq (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2012 04:11:46 -0400 Received: from moweb002.kundenserver.de (moweb002.kundenserver.de [172.19.20.108]) by fmmailgate05.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC0F16DE40A4 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:11:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.178.48] ([91.3.174.29]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb002) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0Lm4TR-1RloFi1rub-00ZdgI; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:11:27 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:yMk2IDQzOVhtygIIAKazRpR8Jl219+mUbCcDydHg86/ 5LlBIGiN/69eOWojQH8CDfOtft5nK3icwlrbrxUgJROX8/6WTX lZjCyuhwLHOtfu/ErF9bDIhh6gFD+wvwQaI0KcLbPk+n9Gpfoz SMz3SfThmLNB0cdz5oX1criP37hop0MZY6S33Mwbs/quFJ81vr rDYfeckGc5mlnsds35kXw== Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Am 19.04.2012 22:10, schrieb Andr=C3=A9 Caron: > Hi, >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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 ar= e > 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