From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 22:04:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add git-zip-tree to .gitignore
Message-ID: <7vlkp9x2b9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <44F17FD5.2030000@lsrfire.ath.cx>

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

> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
>
> diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
> index 55cd984..58a7c92 100644
> --- a/.gitignore
> +++ b/.gitignore
> @@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ git-verify-pack
>  git-verify-tag
>  git-whatchanged
>  git-write-tree
> +git-zip-tree
>  git-core-*/?*
>  gitweb/gitweb.cgi
>  test-date

That is sensible.

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.