Re: [PATCH] gitweb: snapshot cleanups & support for offering multiple formats

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 19, 2007, 07:30 UTC
Message-ID: <200707190930.57019.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <571532.59758.qm@web31813.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Luben Tuikov wrote:

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> I wouldn't mind an improvement in the snapshot area of gitweb.
> I wasn't really happy with the snapshot feature as it was originally
> implemented, as it would generate a tar file with ".tar.bz2"
> name extension, but the file was NOT bz2, and I had to always
> manually rename, bz2, and rename back.

This was a *bug*, but it is now corrected (in 9aa17573). Gitweb used Content-Encoding, which is meant for _transparent_ compression.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland

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