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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-archive.txt13
-rw-r--r--builtin-archive.c31
2 files changed, 41 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
index 1917f2e..3d1c1e7 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
@@ -34,8 +34,11 @@ OPTIONS
-------
--format=<fmt>::
- Format of the resulting archive: 'tar' or 'zip'. The default
- is 'tar'.
+ Format of the resulting archive: 'tar' or 'zip'. If this option
+ is not given, and the output file is specified, the format is
+ inferred from the filename if possible (e.g. writing to "foo.zip"
+ makes the output to be in the zip format). Otherwise the output
+ format is `tar`.
-l::
--list::
@@ -130,6 +133,12 @@ git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ > git-1.4.0-docs
Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory
into 'git-1.4.0-docs.zip', with the prefix 'git-docs/'.
+git archive -o latest.zip HEAD::
+
+ Create a Zip archive that contains the contents of the latest
+ commit on the current branch. Note that the output format is
+ inferred by the extension of the output file.
+
SEE ALSO
--------
diff --git a/builtin-archive.c b/builtin-archive.c
index 565314b..12351e9 100644
--- a/builtin-archive.c
+++ b/builtin-archive.c
@@ -60,6 +60,17 @@ static int run_remote_archiver(int argc, const char **argv,
return !!rv;
}
+static const char *format_from_name(const char *filename)
+{
+ const char *ext = strrchr(filename, '.');
+ if (!ext)
+ return NULL;
+ ext++;
+ if (!strcasecmp(ext, "zip"))
+ return "zip";
+ return NULL;
+}
+
#define PARSE_OPT_KEEP_ALL ( PARSE_OPT_KEEP_DASHDASH | \
PARSE_OPT_KEEP_ARGV0 | \
PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN | \
@@ -70,6 +81,7 @@ int cmd_archive(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
const char *exec = "git-upload-archive";
const char *output = NULL;
const char *remote = NULL;
+ const char *format = NULL;
struct option local_opts[] = {
OPT_STRING('o', "output", &output, "file",
"write the archive to this file"),
@@ -77,14 +89,31 @@ int cmd_archive(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
"retrieve the archive from remote repository <repo>"),
OPT_STRING(0, "exec", &exec, "cmd",
"path to the remote git-upload-archive command"),
+ OPT_STRING(0, "format", &format, "fmt", "archive format"),
OPT_END()
};
+ char fmt_opt[32];
argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix, local_opts, NULL,
PARSE_OPT_KEEP_ALL);
- if (output)
+ if (output) {
create_output_file(output);
+ if (!format)
+ format = format_from_name(output);
+ }
+
+ if (format) {
+ sprintf(fmt_opt, "--format=%s", format);
+ /*
+ * This is safe because either --format and/or --output must
+ * have been given on the original command line if we get to
+ * this point, and parse_options() must have eaten at least
+ * one argument, i.e. we have enough room to append to argv[].
+ */
+ argv[argc++] = fmt_opt;
+ argv[argc] = NULL;
+ }
if (remote)
return run_remote_archiver(argc, argv, remote, exec);