Subject: Re: git archive without path

From: René Scharfe <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:11:01 +0100

Dmitry Potapov schrieb:
> I have never run "git archive" inside of a subdirectory but somehow I
> have always assumed that it creates an archive containing all files in
> it regardless the current directory. In fact, the git-archive man page
> says so:
> 
> path
>     If one or more paths are specified, include only these in the
>     archive, otherwise include all files and subdirectories.

This sentence doesn't specify whose files and subdirectories are to be
included -- those in the repository's root or those in the current
directory.  Let's fix that.

-- >8 --
Subject: archive: clarify description of path parameter

Mention that path parameters are based on the current working directory.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <[email-masked]>
--
 Documentation/git-archive.txt |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
index 3d1c1e7..e579791 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
@@ -74,8 +74,9 @@ OPTIONS
 	The tree or commit to produce an archive for.
 
 path::
-	If one or more paths are specified, include only these in the
-	archive, otherwise include all files and subdirectories.
+	Without an optional path parameter, all files and subdirectories
+	of the current working directory are included in the archive.
+	If one or more paths are specified, only these are included.
 
 BACKEND EXTRA OPTIONS
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