From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 16:40:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] git archive: use gzip again by default, document output stabilty
Message-ID: <xmqqwn50uil7.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <771a98ca-9540-ad4e-dfba-9d304e1dff09@dunelm.org.uk>

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:

> ... Reverting the change
> gives the misleading impression that we're making a commitment to
> keeping the output stable. The focus of this thread seems to be the
> problems relating to github which they have already addressed.
>
> I think there is general agreement that it is not practical to promise
> that the compressed output of "git archive" is stable so maybe it is
> better to make that clear now while users can work around it in the
> short term with a config setting rather than waiting until we're faced
> with some security or other issue that forces a change to the output
> which users cannot work around so easily.

I love to see somebody else play the devil's advocate role.  Thanks
for all of the above.