From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 02:00:54 GMT
Subject: Re: git-archive's wrong documentation: really write pax rather than tar
Message-ID: <20110804020054.GA1947@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v62me6ism.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 06:56:41PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > It might be a bit more obvious to find if we actually had a
> > --no-pax-header option, though.
> 
> Yeah, we would need to make sure that --no-pack-header causes a barf
> for other backends, though. "struct archiver_args" right now seems to have
> compression_level but I think it should just have "const char **" that is
> interpreted by backends.

Actually, it is relevant for zip, too. The option should really be
called "--no-commit-id" or something similar. I don't think it's as big
a deal with zip (because there is no compatibility issue), but you may
want to omit the header for other reasons (e.g., because you know it
doesn't point to a commit that is public).

-Peff