From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:25:34 GMT
Subject: Re: obnoxious CLI complaints
Message-ID: <7vtyza5nup.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <43d8ce650909101718j2f1f77cbgc347ee755145353f@mail.gmail.com>

John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com> writes:

>>        git archive >my.file.tar
>
> I thought you didn't like this because then you dump binary to the
> console by default ?

No. That objection came from Jakub and I said it did not make sense to me.

> Why would it be so bad to do:
>
> git archive -f - | down stream commands

Are you seriously asking "why" after I said this?

>> and people who want to pipe (which is 99% of the use pattern for me) can
>> say

If you really need it to be spelled out,...

Because I have to say "-f -" 99% of the time without no good reason.