From: Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@glanzmann.de>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 17:14:57 GMT
Subject: Re: Commit ID in exported Tar Ball
Message-ID: <20070517171457.GG4095@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070517171150.GL5272@planck.djpig.de>

Hello,

> Another possibility might be to add a commandline switch to
> git-archive so you can decide whether the commit id should be added as
> a header to the tar file (which it already supports) or as a ordinary
> file (which should be reasonable trivial to implement). The question
> if whether it would be worth to add that feature. Don't know if there
> are many other users out there that need it.

that would be very good aproach I guess. At least from my point of view.
Because it doesn't break diffs, it concentrates on what matters and if
you don't like it you don't use it.

        Thomas