Hiya,

We have a small project that is being managed in a Git repository (MSysGit =
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be exact) - mostly for backups and so on. The project is a mod for the=20
computer game Civilization 4. (Actually a mod of a mod, but still...)  As=
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such, to release the mod to other people to actually use the only thing tha=
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needs to be released is all of the files that have actually been changed. (=
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actual git repository contains ~700MB of files, the vast majority of which=
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haven't changed since the initial import and so don't need to be downloaded=
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people).

I've managed to make it produce an archive that contains only the files tha=
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have changed by using a combination of git-archive and git-whatchanged, alo=
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with grep and sed, but it's kinda unwieldly. Is there a better way of doing=
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this?

The command line I used was something like (This is mostly from memory):
git-archive --format=3Dzip . `git-whatchanged <start>..HEAD --pretty=3Donel=
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  | grep '^:' | sed 's/^.*\t//'` > release.zip

To produce a zip containing all of the modified and added files for the=20
revision range <start>..HEAD.

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Graham Cox