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Re: [PATCH] Add git-zip-tree to .gitignore

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Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Date
Aug 27, 2006, 22:34 UTC
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Junio C Hamano schrieb:
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> Although it was my fault applying it already to "master" without 
> asking this question first, I started to wonder how many more archive
> format people would want, and if it might make more sense to
> consolidate git-*-tree into a single frontend with an option to
> specify the archiver.
> 
> We would obviously need to keep git-tar-tree as a backward 
> compatibility alias for "git archive-tree -f tar", but doing things
> that way we do not have to introduce unbounded number of new
> git-{zip,rar,...}-tree programs.

That thought occurred to me, too. I guess there are not that many more interesting archive formats, though. Can we defer adding git-archive-tree until a third archive format command appears? I won't submit another one, I promise. ;-)

René
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  4. Junio C HamanoAug 27, 2006
  5. Rene ScharfeAug 28, 2006
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