Re: [PATCH 2/2] archive: support gzipped tar files

> git-archive already supports the creation of tar files. For
> local cases, one can simply pipe the output to gzip, and
> having git-archive do the gzip is a minor convenience.
> 
> However, when running git-archive against a remote site,
> having the remote side do the compression can save
> considerable bandwidth. Service providers could always wrap
> git-archive to provide that functionality, but this makes it
> much simpler.
> 
> Creating gzipped archives is of course more expensive than
> regular tar archives; however, the amount of work should be
> comparable to that of creating a zip file, which is already
> possible. So there should be no new security implications
> with respect to creating load on a remote server.