From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:46:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: change filename/directory name of snapshots
Message-ID: <f4bf7g$kpe$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v4pliltuv.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net> writes:
> 
>> /.git or .git is removed from the project name and the
>> basename of the remaining path is used as the beginning of
>> the filename and as the directory in the archive.
>>
>> The regexp will actually not strip off /.git or .git if there
>> wouldn't be anything left after removing it.
>>
>> Currently the full project name is used as directory in the
>> archive and the basename is used as filename.  For example a
>> repository named foo/bar/.git will have a archive named
>> .git-<version>.* and extract to foo/bar/.git.  With this patch
>> the file is named bar-<version>.* and extracts to bar.
> 
> Makes sense to me for "foo/bar/.git", but I am not sure if we
> would want to do this to "foo/bar.git".  Opinions?

I'd like to have snapshot called bar-<sha1>.tar.gz in first case,
and bar.git-<sha1>.tar.gz (without stripping .git) in the second,
but I wouldn't protest too much about having bar-<sha1>.tar.gz
also in second case.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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