Re: [PATCH 1/2] archive: allow remote to have more formats than we understand.

From: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Date: Sep 10, 2006, 12:05 UTC
Message-ID: <4503FF8B.9060209@lsrfire.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <7vpse4tcyc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano schrieb:

> This fixes git-archive --remote not to parse archiver arguments;
> otherwise if the remote end implements formats other than the
> one known locally we will not be able to access that format.

Yes! That's the right separation of work between the two parties. And git-archive --remote=somewhere --list starts to magically work. =)

Thanks, René

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