Re: What will happen to git.git in the near future

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 24, 2006, 18:33 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0609242031410.25371@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <4516B8A7.6010007@lsrfire.ath.cx>

Hi,

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Rene Scharfe wrote:

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> Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> >  - We should deprecate git-tar-tree.  However, it has been
> >    around and advertised for quite some time, so we need to make
> >    sure people would not get burned too badly.  It might be
> >    worthwhile to rewrite git-tar-tree as a thin wrapper to
> >    "git-archive --format=tar" and remove git-upload-tar now (in
> >    other words, "git-tar-tree --remote" will continue to work,
> >    but it will talk with "git-upload-archive", not with
> >    "git-upload-tar" on the other end), release 1.4.3 with it
> >    with a deprecation warning, and then remove it in 1.4.5.
> 
> Hmm.  The local case in git-tar-tree is already a thin wrapper.
> How about something like this shell script as a replacement for
> the entire command?

I think that this could be done very efficiently (both in terms of time and size) as a "pure" builtin, i.e. something with works as "git tar-tree", but not as "git-tar-tree". Of course, this would break scripts using the latter instead of the former. Just my 2 yinyangs.

Ciao, Dscho