Re: [PATCH] git-archive: accept --owner and --group like GNU tar

René Scharfe writes: >> 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

Re: [PATCH] git-archive: accept --owner and --group like GNU tar

Am 04.01.2018 um 19:22 schrieb Junio C Hamano: > René Scharfe 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.

Re: [PATCH] git-archive: accept --owner and --group like GNU tar

Dear Junio, Could you tell me your thought about the way for me to go? Do you agree with his suggestion; "--uid etc is not the right solution, --include-untracked is better and generic" ? Or, should I work "--uid etc" further? Regards, mpsuzuki Junio C Hamano wrote: René Scharfe

Re: [PATCH] git-archive: accept --owner and --group like GNU tar

René Scharfe 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

Re: [PATCH] git-archive: accept --owner and --group like GNU tar

Am 04.01.2018 um 03:25 schrieb suzuki toshiya: > Taking a glance on parse-options.h, I could not find the > existing class collecting the operands as an array (or > linked list) from multiple "--xxx=yyy" options. Similar > things might be the collecting the pathnames to pathspec > structure.

Re: [PATCH] git-archive: accept --owner and --group like GNU tar

Hi, Hmm, it could be reasonable to assume that --append-file would serve more cases than --uid --gid options. There might be many people who don't care multiple UID/GID in the source tarball, but want to append some files to the archive generated by git-archive. I would take a look how to do

Re: [PATCH] git-archive: accept --owner and --group like GNU tar

Dear René , By overlooking your response, I was writing a patch to add uid/gid into zip archive X-D (not finished yet) https://github.com/mpsuzuki/git/tree/add-zip-uid-gid However, I found that most unix platforms use infozip's extension to store uid/gid instead of pkzip's extension... So this

Re: [PATCH] git-archive: accept --owner and --group like GNU tar

[replying only to the list because emails to per...@pluto.rain.com are rejected by my mail server with the following error message: "Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable invalid DNS MX or A/ resource record."] Am 02.01.2018 um 01:32 schrieb Perry Hutchison: > Ren?? Scharfe

Re: [PATCH] git-archive: accept --owner and --group like GNU tar

Am 02.01.2018 um 07:58 schrieb suzuki toshiya: > Dear René , > > René Scharfe wrote: >> Am 29.12.2017 um 15:05 schrieb suzuki toshiya: >>> The ownership of files created by git-archive is always >>> root:root. Add --owner and --group options which work >>> like the GNU tar equivalent to allow

Re: [PATCH] git-archive: accept --owner and --group like GNU tar

Dear René , René Scharfe wrote: Am 29.12.2017 um 15:05 schrieb suzuki toshiya: The ownership of files created by git-archive is always root:root. Add --owner and --group options which work like the GNU tar equivalent to allow overriding these defaults. In which situations do you use the new

Re: [PATCH] git-archive: accept --owner and --group like GNU tar

Ren?? Scharfe wrote: > Am 29.12.2017 um 15:05 schrieb suzuki toshiya: > > The ownership of files created by git-archive is always > > root:root. Add --owner and --group options which work > > like the GNU tar equivalent to allow overriding these > > defaults. > ... the receiver

Re: [PATCH] git-archive: accept --owner and --group like GNU tar

Am 29.12.2017 um 15:05 schrieb suzuki toshiya: > The ownership of files created by git-archive is always > root:root. Add --owner and --group options which work > like the GNU tar equivalent to allow overriding these > defaults. In which situations do you use the new options? (The sender would

[PATCH] git-archive: accept --owner and --group like GNU tar

The ownership of files created by git-archive is always root:root. Add --owner and --group options which work like the GNU tar equivalent to allow overriding these defaults. Signed-off-by: suzuki toshiya --- Documentation/git-archive.txt | 13 +++ archive-tar.c