From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:47:21 GMT
Subject: Re: obnoxious CLI complaints
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In-Reply-To: <43d8ce650909121608t2b9c4b9bw44104acceea26e12@mail.gmail.com>

John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com> writes:

> Ah, the manpage examples specifically give the --format=tar though.

So what?

> Why not have  --format=tgz  then or something?  Or better yet, give
> the filename on the command line and detect the format from the file
> extension.

That is an interesting enhancement and sounds like a useful feature.