[PATCH] export with top directory for tar format

[John A Meinel]

Lalo Martins wrote:

>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
>  
>
Well, I think in general having the exported tarbal use '/' is probably 
bad form. Pretty much nobody expects to untar and get files in the 
current directory. I would actually say we should default to using the 
name of the tarball, which can be overridden with something like a 
'--root' flag.

So doing:

bzr export --format=tgz bzr-0.0.5.tar.gz
Would default to having root = 'bzr-0.0.5'
And if you wanted, explicitly giving a root would override this behavior.

John
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