[PATCH] export with top directory for tar format

[John A Meinel]

John A Meinel wrote:
...

> 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.
>
Just to backup my statement, attached is a patch. This leaves in
William's --root flag, but if it is not supplied a default is created
based on the filename.
John
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