From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:46:58 GMT
Subject: Re: obnoxious CLI complaints
Message-ID: <43d8ce650909101246l50189c97r4f3fc4a8d7a0bd4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200909101850.26109.jnareb@gmail.com>

2009/9/10 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:
> Dnia czwartek 10. września 2009 00:06, Wincent Colaiuta napisał:
>> El 09/09/2009, a las 23:54, Jakub Narebski escribió:
>>> Brendan Miller <catphive@catphive.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> 5. Most commands require lots of flags, and don't have reasonable
>>>> defaults. e.g. archive.
>>>>
>>>> $ git archive --format=tar --prefix=myproject/ HEAD |
>>>> > gzip myproject.tar.gz
>>>>
>>>> Should just be:
>>>> git archive
>>>> run from the root of the repo.
>>>
>>> I'd rather not have "git archive" work without specifying tree-ish.
>>
>> Why, out of interest? I would've thought that HEAD would be a pretty
>> good default, although I confess that I have never used "git archive"
>> without specifying a particular signed tag.
>
> 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?

John