Re: Scripts to use "bundles" for moving data between repositories

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Feb 14, 2007, 18:20 UTC
Message-ID: <7v8xf0ppmf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <45D34D58.8050701@verizon.net>

Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net> writes:

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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> I think something like this is a good addition but I do not want
>> us to require zip/unzip to use git.  I think saner alternative
>> would be to use tar.
>>
>>
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> That is any easy change. As the dominant content is an already
> compressed pack file, is tar sufficient or should it be a gzip or bzip
> tar?

If you are re-spinning the patch, please do not forget that you would want to link it in the main Makefile and link the docs to git.7 by adding them to Documentation/cmd-list.perl.

The USAGE string should fit comfortably on 80-column terminal. The same goes for AsciiDoc text documentation. Your lines are too long.