当我运行git archive时，为什么会出现“远程：致命：找不到路径：HEAD”错误？

Question

I am trying to extract a single file from my git repo like so ...

$ git archive --remote=red-git:/opt/red-git/RED-puppet.git development HEAD:usr/local/scripts/apply.sh | tar -xvf -

... but it doesn't work. I get this error message.

remote: fatal: path not found: HEAD:usr/local/scripts/apply.sh
remote: git upload-archive: archiver died with error
fatal: sent error to the client: git upload-archive: archiver died with error
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

I know there are a ton of questions and answer about how to extract a single file from git, but none of them have been able to explain to me why am I getting the error:

remote: fatal: path not found: HEAD:usr/local/scripts/apply.sh

I know the shell script is there because I can do this ...

$ git archive --remote=red-git:/opt/red-git/RED-puppet.git development | tar -xvf - | grep apply.sh
...
usr/local/scripts/apply.sh

Answer 1

After banging my HEAD against the wall and much trail and error I came upon this command-line that does the trick:

git archive --remote=red-git:/opt/red-git/RED-puppet.git development usr/local/scripts/apply.sh | tar -xvf -

No HEAD: . Good I wasn't really sure what that meant anyways. :)