From: Jakub Narebski Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:23:29 GMT Subject: Re: obnoxious CLI complaints Message-ID: <200909102223.31602.jnareb@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43d8ce650909101246l50189c97r4f3fc4a8d7a0bd4@mail.gmail.com> Dnia czwartek 10. września 2009 21:46, John Tapsell napisał: > 2009/9/10 Jakub Narebski : > > First, it would be consistent with how ordinary archivers such as tar > > or zip are used, where you have to specify list of files to archive > > (in our case this list is HEAD).  Second, I'd rather not accidentally > > dump binary to terminal: "git archive [HEAD]" dumps archive to standard > > output. > > That could be fixed by outputting to a file. git format-patch outputs > to a file, so why wouldn't git achieve? "git format-patch" outputs to files because it generates _multiple_ files; generating single patch is special case. Also git-format-patch can generate file names from patch (commit) subject; it is not the case for "git archive" (what name should it use?). -- Jakub Narebski Poland