Re: [PATCH v2] archive: initialize archivers earlier

> Initialize archivers as soon as possible when running git-archive and
> git-upload-archive. Various non-obvious behavior depends on having the
> archivers initialized, such as determining the desired archival format
> from the provided filename.
> 
> Since 08716b3c11 ("archive: refactor file extension format-guessing",
> 2011-06-21), archive_format_from_filename() has used the registered
> archivers to match filenames (provided via --output) to archival
> formats. However, when git-archive is executed with --remote, format
> detection happens before the archivers have been registered. This causes
> archives from remotes to always be generated as TAR files, regardless of
> the actual filename (unless an explicit --format is provided).
> 
> This patch fixes that behavior; archival format is determined properly
> from the output filename, even when --remote is used.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>

> diff --git a/builtin/upload-archive.c b/builtin/upload-archive.c
> index 25d9116356..3f35ebcfe8 100644
> --- a/builtin/upload-archive.c
> +++ b/builtin/upload-archive.c
> @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ int cmd_upload_archive_writer(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>  	}
>  
>  	/* parse all options sent by the client */
> +	init_archivers();
>  	return write_archive(sent_argv.argc, sent_argv.argv, prefix,
>  			     the_repository, NULL, 1);
>  }

> diff --git a/t/t5000-tar-tree.sh b/t/t5000-tar-tree.sh
> index 2a97b27b0a..3e95fdf660 100755
> --- a/t/t5000-tar-tree.sh
> +++ b/t/t5000-tar-tree.sh
> @@ -206,6 +206,12 @@ test_expect_success 'git archive with --output, override inferred format' '
>  	test_cmp_bin b.tar d4.zip
>  '
>  
> +test_expect_success GZIP 'git archive with --output and --remote uses expected format' '
> +	git archive --output=d5.tgz --remote=. HEAD &&
> +	gzip -d -c < d5.tgz > d5.tar &&
> +	test_cmp_bin b.tar d5.tar
> +'