From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] archive: use index instead of parsing tree directly
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:20:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vvdpfj6jz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1239185133-4181-7-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
> Currently:
>
> - "git archive" parses trees directly
> - attr mechanism does not support in-tree attributes
>
> Making attr.c support in-tree attributes is quite a non-trivial task,
> IMHO. Instead this patch makes "git archive" read tree to index first,
> then start exporting from there.
>
> One minor regression: "git archive" now will no longer generate
> directory entries, only files.
Hmmm, if you read_tree() into the_index upfront and do not change anything
else to the archive.c code, shouldn't it work without such a regression at
all? Am I missing something?
It would allow you to export the index into an archive, but I doubt it is
worth the amount of code churn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-08 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-08 10:05 [PATCH 0/8] support "in-tree attributes" for git-archive Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2009-04-08 10:05 ` [PATCH 1/8] archive: add shortcuts for --format and --prefix Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2009-04-08 10:05 ` [PATCH 2/8] move prune_cache() to git lib Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2009-04-08 10:05 ` [PATCH 3/8] archive: add a failure test wrt .gitattributes misreading Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2009-04-08 10:05 ` [PATCH 4/8] archive: add tests for directory selection Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2009-04-08 10:05 ` [PATCH 5/8] attr: add GIT_ATTR_INDEX "direction" Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2009-04-08 10:05 ` [PATCH 6/8] archive: use index instead of parsing tree directly Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2009-04-08 10:05 ` [PATCH 7/8] archive: disregard .gitattributes on working directory Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2009-04-08 10:05 ` [PATCH 8/8] archive: support creating archives from index Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2009-04-08 20:48 ` René Scharfe
2009-04-08 19:20 ` [PATCH 7/8] archive: disregard .gitattributes on working directory Junio C Hamano
2009-04-08 19:20 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-04-08 20:39 ` [PATCH 6/8] archive: use index instead of parsing tree directly René Scharfe
2009-04-08 21:02 ` René Scharfe
2009-04-08 19:52 ` [PATCH 4/8] archive: add tests for directory selection René Scharfe
2009-04-08 19:20 ` [PATCH 3/8] archive: add a failure test wrt .gitattributes misreading Junio C Hamano
2009-04-13 13:56 ` René Scharfe
2009-04-14 6:41 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2009-04-14 20:12 ` René Scharfe
2009-04-16 8:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-17 20:15 ` René Scharfe
2009-04-18 1:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-08 19:19 ` [PATCH 2/8] move prune_cache() to git lib Junio C Hamano
2009-04-08 19:51 ` [PATCH 1/8] archive: add shortcuts for --format and --prefix René Scharfe
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