René Scharfe <l....@web.de> writes: > I don't know if it's a good idea, but perhaps we don't even need a new > option. We could change how pathspecs of untracked files are handled: > Instead of aborting we could include them in the archive. (Sounds like > the simplest possible interface, but may have practical problems.)
One practical problem is that users who do this $ git archive HEAD Documentation/ | tar tf - would be expecting (at least) two different things, depending on the situation they are in. So at least you'd need an "--include-untracked" option, I guess.