Re: [PATCH][RFC] Add git-archive-tree

Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:

Which wire protocol are you talking about? The one between upload-tar and local "tar-tree --remote"? I think that one was a tar-tree specific hack and we do not want to mimic it.

Your idea of making archiver neutral upload/download pair makes sense. The daemon can invoke upload-archive with a single parameter (the repository, "."), just like upload_tar() in "pu:daemon.c" does [*1*], and upload-archive talks with the other end to know which archiver to run with what paramter. We would probably want to use some sort of side-band mechanism so that we can do progress-bar as well.

*1* Unrelated side note.  I find myself typing "git less" quite
    often ;-)

	git less pu:daemon.c

    and get "no such command, dummy" response.  

    Yes, I know I could alias it to "-p cat-file -p".  I am just
    too lazy to do so.