From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 22:52:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 15/15] user-manual: Use --format=tar.gz to create a gzipped tarball
Message-ID: <7vk3qfrdco.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130210223239.GE8377@odin.tremily.us>

"W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> writes:

> 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.