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| author | Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> | 2022-05-28 16:11:12 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2022-05-30 23:07:22 -0700 |
| commit | 237a1d138c4322a7e934f129dee02e2ea6a214cd (patch) | |
| tree | 72146e883c5056136fdf0aabddd1160f9cf55747 /Documentation/git-archive.txt | |
| parent | 23f2356fd902434a9b8e9e4cdae735f399c16ff0 (diff) | |
| download | git-237a1d138c4322a7e934f129dee02e2ea6a214cd.tar.gz | |
archive: optionally add "virtual" files
With the `--add-virtual-file=<path>:<content>` option, `git archive` now
supports use cases where relatively trivial files need to be added that
do not exist on disk.
This will allow us to generate `.zip` files with generated content,
without having to add said content to the object database and without
having to write it out to disk.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
[jc: tweaked <path> handling]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-archive.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-archive.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt index 94519aae23..b41cc5bc2e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ OPTIONS --prefix=<prefix>/:: Prepend <prefix>/ to paths in the archive. Can be repeated; its rightmost value is used for all tracked files. See below which - value gets used by `--add-file`. + value gets used by `--add-file` and `--add-virtual-file`. -o <file>:: --output=<file>:: @@ -63,6 +63,17 @@ OPTIONS concatenating the value of the last `--prefix` option (if any) before this `--add-file` and the basename of <file>. +--add-virtual-file=<path>:<content>:: + Add the specified contents to the archive. Can be repeated to add + multiple files. The path of the file in the archive is built + by concatenating the value of the last `--prefix` option (if any) + before this `--add-virtual-file` and `<path>`. ++ +The `<path>` cannot contain any colon, the file mode is limited to +a regular file, and the option may be subject to platform-dependent +command-line limits. For non-trivial cases, write an untracked file +and use `--add-file` instead. + --worktree-attributes:: Look for attributes in .gitattributes files in the working tree as well (see <<ATTRIBUTES>>). |