Hi, 2006/8/31, Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Junio has similar code in the 'next' branch. And he correctly pointed
duh, wasn't aware of it. :(
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 ;)
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. -- Franck -- VGER BF report: U 0.499999 - 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