[haiku-development] Re: Distributed Version Control Tools (was Re: EDID Common Accelerant Fixes)

On 14/04/2008, Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  Am 14.04.2008 um 23:25 schrieb Ryan Leavengood:
> > FYI when I untarred that it had no .git directory. So it really is
> > just a copy of the code at the time you created it. Though it at least
> > saves the trouble of having to remove all the .svn directories from a
> > SVN-based checkout.
> >
>
>  You can use `svn export` for exactly that purpose. :-)

Believe it or not, the new tar (GNU) has an --exclude-vcs option that
removes common source-control directories including .svn.

I just stumbled across that myself, so thought others might be
interested to know as well.

- Urias

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