Re: What will happen to git.git in the near future

From: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Date: Sep 24, 2006, 16:56 UTC
Message-ID: <4516B8A7.6010007@lsrfire.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <7v7iztbldm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano schrieb:

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>  - We should deprecate git-tar-tree.  However, it has been
>    around and advertised for quite some time, so we need to make
>    sure people would not get burned too badly.  It might be
>    worthwhile to rewrite git-tar-tree as a thin wrapper to
>    "git-archive --format=tar" and remove git-upload-tar now (in
>    other words, "git-tar-tree --remote" will continue to work,
>    but it will talk with "git-upload-archive", not with
>    "git-upload-tar" on the other end), release 1.4.3 with it
>    with a deprecation warning, and then remove it in 1.4.5.

Hmm. The local case in git-tar-tree is already a thin wrapper. How about something like this shell script as a replacement for the entire command?

René

USAGE='[--remote=<repo>] <tree-ish> [basedir]' . git-sh-setup

case "$1" in --remote=*) remote=1;; *) remote=0;; esac

case "$#,$remote" in 1,0) exec git-archive --format=tar "$1";; 2,0) exec git-archive --format=tar --prefix="$2"/ "$1";; 2,1) exec git-archive --format=tar "$1" "$2";; 3,1) exec git-archive --format=tar --prefix="$3"/ "$1" "$2";; *) usage;; esac