Re: [PATCH 0/3] git-daemon: plug new upload-tar command

From: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 2, 2006, 08:14 UTC
Message-ID: <cda58cb80609020114h1e1ee553saf5aa90df8bc3ba0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <44F72039.3040206@lsrfire.ath.cx>

Hi,

2006/8/31, Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>:

> Junio has similar code in the 'next' branch.  And he correctly pointed

duh, wasn't aware of it. :(

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> out that with the arrival of git-zip-tree the time has come to think
> about a format independent tree-to-archive converter command to avoid
> re-implementing essentially the same thing under the names of
> git-upload-zip, git-upload-rar etc.
>

That would make sense if you're going to implement any possible archive formats ;)

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> I'm trying for a few days now to find time for implementing a
> git-archive command, but I'm failing.  And I won't be able to do so
> before the weekend (at least).
>
> I propose to make the command line syntax more similar to the one of
> git-ls-tree (e.g. --prefix instead of optional second non-option
> parameter for base dir, support for path specs).  In a previous mail I
> also proposed to merge the upload command into git-archive, but now that
> I thought a bit about it it doesn't make sense to me anymore.
>

Maybe it's time for a "upload-archive" that would implement a common git archiver protocol used by all git-{zip,tar,..}-tree. And by that time move git-tar-tree protocol stuff into git-archive.

> So if you beat me to it, that would be great.  Or if you have a better
> idea, that would be also great. :-)
>

Well I'll try to start something, not sure to have a lot of time though. Please contact me before starting anything, I would be sad to write something for /dev/null again ;)

One point would make git-tar-tree able to compress data and git-daemon would refuse any requests for a non compressed archive format.

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               Franck

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