Subject: [PATCH] Make it possible to run git archive --remote without a git directory.

From: Simon Hausmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 10:12:37 +0200

Try a gentle git directory setup for the archive command that remains fatal 
for the local case but permits operation without a local git repository when 
using --remote. If in the remote case a git directory is present it will then 
still be used for proxy settings, but that is optional now.

Signed-off-by: Simon Hausmann <[email-masked]>
---
 builtin-archive.c |    6 ++++++
 git.c             |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin-archive.c b/builtin-archive.c
index 2fae885..434fec7 100644
--- a/builtin-archive.c
+++ b/builtin-archive.c
@@ -243,11 +243,17 @@ int cmd_archive(int argc, const char **argv, const char 
*prefix)
 	struct archiver ar;
 	int tree_idx;
 	const char *remote = NULL;
+	int nongit = 0;
+
+	prefix = setup_git_directory_gently(&nongit);
 
 	remote = extract_remote_arg(&argc, argv);
 	if (remote)
 		return run_remote_archiver(remote, argc, argv);
 
+	if (nongit)
+		die("Not a git repository");
+
 	setvbuf(stderr, NULL, _IOLBF, BUFSIZ);
 
 	memset(&ar, 0, sizeof(ar));
diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index 5b1bc2a..33dd4d3 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ static void handle_internal_command(int argc, const char 
**argv, char **envp)
 		{ "add", cmd_add, RUN_SETUP | NOT_BARE },
 		{ "annotate", cmd_annotate, USE_PAGER },
 		{ "apply", cmd_apply },
-		{ "archive", cmd_archive, RUN_SETUP },
+		{ "archive", cmd_archive },
 		{ "blame", cmd_blame, RUN_SETUP },
 		{ "branch", cmd_branch, RUN_SETUP },
 		{ "bundle", cmd_bundle },
-- 
1.5.1