Re: [PATCH v2 15/15] user-manual: Use --format=tar.gz to create a gzipped tarball
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- Feb 10, 2013, 22:52 UTC
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"W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> writes:
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> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 02:27:08PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> This is a "meh" at least to me. Unless it uses something like >> >> git archive -o latest.tar.gz --prefix=project/ HEAD >> >> it is not all that interesting. > > Great suggestion. My original goal was to remove the pipe, but if we > can remove the redirection too, that's one less POSIX-ism for newbies > to wonder about ;).
I was referring to more about the implicit format recognition not pipe.