Re: Feature request: Allow extracting revisions into directories

2013-02-09 Thread Robert Clausecker
a branch into an arbitrary directory. Also, it satisfies all 4 criteria from [1] and therefore is perfect for deployment from a bare repository. What do you think about this feature request? Yours, Robert Clausecker [1]: http://sitaramc.github.com/the-list-and-irc/deploy.html Am Dienstag, den

Re: Feature request: Allow extracting revisions into directories

2013-02-09 Thread Robert Clausecker
There are two things git archive is missing that are needed in my use case: First, git archive in combination with tar won't remove unneeded files. You have to run rm -rf before manually which brings me to the next point; git archive can't really make incremental updates. Consider an export that

Re: Feature request: Allow extracting revisions into directories

2013-02-09 Thread Robert Clausecker
That is actually a pretty interesting approach. I can use a different index file for different deployments. How does this cooperate with bare repositories? Aren't they supposed to have no index file at all? Am Samstag, den 09.02.2013, 20:06 -0800 schrieb Jonathan Nieder: My advice is to keep a

Feature request: Allow extracting revisions into directories

2013-02-03 Thread Robert Clausecker
of making an archive. Thank you very much for your help. Yours, Robert Clausecker signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Feature request: Allow extracting revisions into directories

2013-02-03 Thread Robert Clausecker
to do this using a pipe to tar somewhere in the man pages) is a small and simple change that improves usability. Yours, Robert Clausecker signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part