From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:06:04 GMT
Subject: Re: obnoxious CLI complaints
Message-ID: <4C1FB36D-F8A6-4C01-A42A-8AD2355A9961@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <m3fxavvl5k.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

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.

Cheers,
Wincent