From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 22:57:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add git-zip-tree to .gitignore
Message-ID: <7vhczxvlar.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <44F21E0B.9010600@lsrfire.ath.cx>

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

> 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. ;-)

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.