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

> Junio C Hamano schrieb:
>> Although it was my fault applying it already to "master" without 
>> asking this question first, I started to wonder how many more archive
>> format people would want, and if it might make more sense to
>> consolidate git-*-tree into a single frontend with an option to
>> specify the archiver.
>> 
>> We would obviously need to keep git-tar-tree as a backward 
>> compatibility alias for "git archive-tree -f tar", but doing things
>> that way we do not have to introduce unbounded number of new
>> git-{zip,rar,...}-tree programs.
>
> That thought occurred to me, too.  I guess there are not that many more
> interesting archive formats, though.  Can we defer adding
> git-archive-tree until a third archive format command appears?  I won't
> submit another one, I promise. ;-)