Re: [PATCH] Add git-zip-tree to .gitignore

> Junio C Hamano schrieb:
>> 
>> I was more worried about possibly having to do --remote once in
>> each for tar-tree and zip-tree in git-daemon.  The version of
>> daemon currently in "pu" can allow git-tar-tree to be accessed
>> from the client via git:// URL.
>
> Good point.  And especially for net transfers a compressed format like
> ZIP or TGZ (not yet implemented) would be better.
>
> Would it make sense to have just one multiplexer command?  I.e.
> something like this:
>
>   git-archive -f <format> [extra]                <tree-ish> [<base>]
>   git-archive -f <format> [extra] --upload       <tree-ish> [<base>]
>   git-archive -f <format> [extra] --remote=<url> <tree-ish> [<base>]
>
> [extra] stands for format specific options like the compression ratio
> for ZIP.  The protocol spoken by upload and --remote would need to be
> extended to be able to specify the format and any format specific options.

> While we're discussing the command line interface, would it make sense
> to support path specs, like e.g. ls-tree does?  Like this:
>
>   git-archive -f <format> [extra] [--prefix=<base>] <tree-ish> [<path>]
>
> Personally, I don't see the need for path specs for archive creation,
> but IF we want to introduce them then the best time to do it would be
> now, at the same time as introducing git-archive (or git-archive-tree).