How can I use git-archive to include submodules from a bare repository

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Jacob picture Jacob · Mar 30, 2011 · Viewed 20.9k times · Source

I'm in the process of setting up a deployment script. The basic process is:

  1. Push changes to a bare repository on the server
  2. Then based on new tags will create a new folder for the release.
  3. Use git archive to move the files into the release directory
  4. Runs some migrations scripts and puts it live (if all is successful).

The issue is my repository contains a submodule, which doesn't get put in the archive, and therefore doesn't get put in the release directory.

I've seen git-archive-all, but that doesn't work on a bare repository.

If its not possible, I'm considering,

  1. making the repository not bare, and updating the working copy, which would allow me to use git-archive-all. Or
  2. having a second bare repository of the submodule on the server, which I could get an archive from (would have to look into this to make sure I'm getting the right revision).

Answer

ismailsunni picture ismailsunni · Nov 18, 2016

I use this python package https://github.com/Kentzo/git-archive-all. You can install it by using

pip install git-archive-all

On OSX, you can install it also using brew install git-archive-all

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