[PATCH] export with top directory for tar format

Lalo Martins lalo at exoweb.net
Wed Jul 6 16:14:55 BST 2005


And so says William Dodé on 06/07/05 21:45...
> When we export in tar format we cannot give a top directory like 
> bzr-0.0.5/... It's very annoying when we extract it.
> 
> If there is no better idea, i did a patch to can give the root 
> directory as an option like : bzr export --format=tgz
> --root=bzr-0.0.5 bzr-0.0.5.tgz (maybe --top instead of root to don't
> make confusion with bzr root ?)

Sorry, not adding this feature to begin with, was a serious oversight on
my part.  So I'm +1 on your patch.

best,
Lalo Martins
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