From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: David Bryson <david@statichacks.org>
Cc: Victor Bogado da Silva Lins <victor@bogado.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to git-archive ignore some files?
Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 21:22:07 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805082118390.30431@racer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080508170442.GK9562@eratosthenes.sbcglobal.net>
Hi,
On Thu, 8 May 2008, David Bryson wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 03:15:31PM -0300 or thereabouts, Victor Bogado da Silva Lins wrote:
> > I want to use git-archive to create source packages, but my git
> > repository has a .gitignore that I don't want to be pushed into the
> > archive. So is it possible to keep the .gitignore file in the
> > repository and create an archive(*) without it?
> >
> > *) using git-archive, off course.
>
> Others already discussed the --delete method with tar, [...]
I wonder if the most natural way with Git would not be to create a
throw-away tree:
cp .git/index .git/tmp-index &&
GIT_INDEX_FILE=.git/tmp-index git rm --cached .gitignore &&
git archive $(GIT_INDEX_FILE=.git/tmp-index git write-tree) &&
rm .git/tmp-index
WARNING: this has not seen any testing.
Ciao,
Dscho
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-08 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-06 18:15 how to git-archive ignore some files? Victor Bogado da Silva Lins
2008-05-06 18:56 ` Sean Estabrooks
2008-05-06 21:23 ` René Scharfe
2008-05-06 22:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-11 10:44 ` René Scharfe
2008-05-11 16:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-12 9:36 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-08 16:42 ` René Scharfe
2008-05-08 17:04 ` David Bryson
2008-05-08 20:22 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
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