Given that pygit2 is probably the best option for Python developers building cross-platform Git applications
When a Windows (or, to a lesser extent) Mac user wants to create an archive, equivalent to using the git archive command,
Then they probably are going to want to create a zip archive
So that archive can be opened easily with their system's default file explorer
pygit2.Repository.write_archive currently only supports tarfiles.
I have written my own version of this method that I would like to contribute back to the project which supports creating zip archives, to the extent possible with the zipfile library (read: does not support symlink).
If that is something the maintainers would be interested in, please let me know, and I'll rework this into a PR that adds the code to repository.py and matches the existing style guide.
Thanks for building and maintaining such a stellar library!
Given that pygit2 is probably the best option for Python developers building cross-platform Git applications When a Windows (or, to a lesser extent) Mac user wants to create an archive, equivalent to using the
git archivecommand, Then they probably are going to want to create a zip archive So that archive can be opened easily with their system's default file explorerpygit2.Repository.write_archivecurrently only supports tarfiles.I have written my own version of this method that I would like to contribute back to the project which supports creating zip archives, to the extent possible with the
zipfilelibrary (read: does not support symlink).If that is something the maintainers would be interested in, please let me know, and I'll rework this into a PR that adds the code to
repository.pyand matches the existing style guide.Thanks for building and maintaining such a stellar library!