Git is a source code management system like CVS, svn, arch, and
others.
It would be nice to add exclude support to R CMD build and INSTALL so
that the .git subdir of an R package is handled appropriately.
Here is a possible patch:
diff --git a/src/scripts/INSTALL.in b/src/scripts/INSTALL.in
index 75da9db..09e5ab5 100644
--- a/src/scripts/INSTALL.in
+++ b/src/scripts/INSTALL.in
@@ -863,7 +863,7 @@ do_install_source () {
## When installing from a source directory under version control, we
## should really exclude the subdirs CVS, .svn (Subversion) and
## .arch-ids (arch).
- for d in CVS .svn .arch-ids; do
+ for d in CVS .svn .arch-ids .git; do
find "${R_PACKAGE_DIR}" -name ${d} -type d -prune \
-exec rm -rf \{\} \; 2>/dev/null
done
diff --git a/src/scripts/build.in b/src/scripts/build.in
index 15c9e0c..ee880d9 100755
--- a/src/scripts/build.in
+++ b/src/scripts/build.in
@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ foreach my $pkg (@ARGV) {
print EXCLUDE "$File::Find::name\n" if(-d $_ && /^CVS$/);
print EXCLUDE "$File::Find::name\n" if(-d $_ && /^\.svn$/);
print EXCLUDE "$File::Find::name\n" if(-d $_ && /^\.arch-ids$/);
+ print EXCLUDE "$File::Find::name\n" if(-d $_ && /^\.git$/);
## Windows DLL resource file
push(@exclude_patterns, "^src/" . $pkgname . "_res\\.rc");
my $filename = $File::Find::name;
--
+ seth
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