From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Lehmann Subject: Re: git-archive submodule support Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 17:40:54 +0100 Message-ID: <50969A96.3010703@web.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Rotem Yaari X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Nov 04 17:41:14 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 1TV3G3-0008Cr-RD for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2012 17:41:12 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753060Ab2KDQk5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Nov 2012 11:40:57 -0500 Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.4]:53655 "EHLO mout.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751164Ab2KDQk5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Nov 2012 11:40:57 -0500 Received: from [192.168.178.41] ([91.3.190.38]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb103) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0MduIT-1Tjfr80xtV-00Q8Ul; Sun, 04 Nov 2012 17:40:55 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Thunderbird/16.0.2 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.5 X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:q4h+Rl86BE1u/RMCKl5f0TClfmwSwmn2c/45ngpvJew UEVpKUgeAC9jhMh963tLGHiyeBAGhJCpCU6KI/nNfx2BJnMlJJ JnFzI/dQ+4RFwK9V/65Ilf4C3aVLIyh0I1yyQcZNU2QbP/tay7 gPlLNPGvL/ALqX0Ag+j9iw9t0t4xzWYea8lzeg/Is43L8O9cjQ io8yZQXy7qTnH9PjLssvQ== Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Am 04.11.2012 15:53, schrieb Rotem Yaari: > I was wondering if there are any plans to support inclusion of > submodules in git-archive. This is very useful for quickly preparing > ready-to-deploy archives of "unstable" branches etc., without the > users' need to clone submodule dependencies each time. > > Is this planned at some point? Such a change would be greatly appreciated. It is planned but I don't expect to find the time for that in the near future, especially as this is not my itch. But I'd be willing to assist you in resurrecting a four year old patch for that from Lars Hjemli. It is archived in my GitHub repo: https://github.com/jlehmann/git-submod-enhancements/tree/archive--submodules