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Re: [PATCH 7/7] archive: provide builtin .tar.gz filter

From
Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Date
Jun 16, 2011, 07:56 UTC
Message-ID
<20110616075621.GA12413@arachsys.com>
In-Reply-To
<20110616065146.GA30672@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King <peff@github.com> writes:
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> No, I mean that people may _want_ the timestamp in day to day use. Using
> "-n" all the time suppresses it. And there is no reason to suppress it,
> except that our test does not account for it properly. So your patch is
> hurting people who don't want "-n" (i.e., want the timestamp) just to
> make our test happy.

It's useful to omit the timestamp outside of git too. Source-based package management systems generally store a URL from which to fetch a source tarball, and a hash of that source tarball to ensure it hasn't been tampered with. It's nice to be able to use a gitweb URL like

  http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=snapshot;h=e5af0de202e885b793482d416b8ce9d50dd2b8bc;sf=tgz

as the tarball source, and still be able to verify its integrity against a prestored hash.

Cheers,
Chris.
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Message 25 of 56 in “archive: factor out write phase of tar format”
  1. 1/2 archive: factor out write phase of tar formatJeff King, Jun 14, 2011
  2. 2/2 archive: support gzipped tar filesJeff King, Jun 14, 2011
  3. J.H.Jun 14, 2011
  4. Jeff KingJun 14, 2011
  5. René ScharfeJun 14, 2011
  6. Jeff KingJun 14, 2011
  7. Jeff KingJun 14, 2011
  8. 0/7 user-configurable git-archive output formatsJeff King, Jun 15, 2011
  9. 1/7 archive: reorder option parsing and config readingJeff King, Jun 15, 2011
  10. 2/7 archive: add user-configurable tar-filter infrastructureJeff King, Jun 15, 2011
  11. Junio C HamanoJun 15, 2011
  12. Jeff KingJun 16, 2011
  13. 3/7 archive: support user tar-filters via --formatJeff King, Jun 15, 2011
  14. 4/7 archive: advertise user tar-filters in --listJeff King, Jun 15, 2011
  15. 5/7 archive: refactor format-guessing from filenameJeff King, Jun 15, 2011
  16. Junio C HamanoJun 15, 2011
  17. Jeff KingJun 16, 2011
  18. 6/7 archive: match extensions from user-configured formatsJeff King, Jun 15, 2011
  19. 7/7 archive: provide builtin .tar.gz filterJeff King, Jun 15, 2011
  20. Junio C HamanoJun 15, 2011
  21. Junio C HamanoJun 15, 2011
  22. Jeff KingJun 16, 2011
  23. Junio C HamanoJun 16, 2011
  24. Jeff KingJun 16, 2011
  25. Chris WebbJun 16, 2011
  26. Jeff KingJun 16, 2011
  27. Junio C HamanoJun 16, 2011
  28. Jeff KingJun 16, 2011
  29. John SzakmeisterJun 16, 2011
  30. Junio C HamanoJun 16, 2011
  31. Jeff KingJun 16, 2011
  32. René ScharfeJun 18, 2011
  33. Jakub NarebskiJun 18, 2011
  34. Junio C HamanoJun 20, 2011
  35. 0/9 configurable tar compressorsJeff King, Jun 22, 2011
  36. 1/9 archive: reorder option parsing and config readingJeff King, Jun 22, 2011
  37. 2/9 archive-tar: don't reload default config optionsJeff King, Jun 22, 2011
  38. 3/9 archive: refactor list of archive formatsJeff King, Jun 22, 2011
  39. Thiago FarinaJun 23, 2011
  40. Jeff KingJun 23, 2011
  41. 4/9 archive: pass archiver struct to write_archive callbackJeff King, Jun 22, 2011
  42. 5/9 archive: move file extension format-guessing lowerJeff King, Jun 22, 2011
  43. 6/9 archive: refactor file extension format-guessingJeff King, Jun 22, 2011
  44. 7/9 archive: implement configurable tar filtersJeff King, Jun 22, 2011
  45. Jeff KingJun 22, 2011
  46. René ScharfeJun 22, 2011
  47. Jeff KingJun 22, 2011
  48. 8/9 archive: provide builtin .tar.gz filterJeff King, Jun 22, 2011
  49. 9/9 upload-archive: allow user to turn off filtersJeff King, Jun 22, 2011
  50. Jeff KingJun 22, 2011
  51. Jeff KingJun 21, 2011
  52. René ScharfeJun 18, 2011
  53. Junio C HamanoJun 14, 2011
  54. Jeff KingJun 14, 2011
  55. Miles BaderJun 14, 2011
  56. Jeff KingJun 15, 2011

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