Here's a simple patchset that basically teach git-daemon about the upload-tar command added by Junio's commit: 217542640ed219c980fff2b3c307c4520120f20f With a patched daemon it's now possible to do: $ git tar-tree --remote=git://host/path/to/repo HEAD > repo.tar It also creates a 'service' structure to ease future command integration (like git internal commands handling does). I'm not sure how usefull it will be, but it improves at least code readability. Something that may be usefull now is to make git-daemon able to compress data it sends back... Franck --- builtin-tar-tree.c | 2 + daemon.c | 85 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- git.c | 2 + 3 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html