Hi, On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Rene Scharfe wrote: > Junio C Hamano schrieb: > > - We should deprecate git-tar-tree. However, it has been > > around and advertised for quite some time, so we need to make > > sure people would not get burned too badly. It might be > > worthwhile to rewrite git-tar-tree as a thin wrapper to > > "git-archive --format=tar" and remove git-upload-tar now (in > > other words, "git-tar-tree --remote" will continue to work, > > but it will talk with "git-upload-archive", not with > > "git-upload-tar" on the other end), release 1.4.3 with it > > with a deprecation warning, and then remove it in 1.4.5. > > Hmm. The local case in git-tar-tree is already a thin wrapper. > How about something like this shell script as a replacement for > the entire command? I think that this could be done very efficiently (both in terms of time and size) as a "pure" builtin, i.e. something with works as "git tar-tree", but not as "git-tar-tree". Of course, this would break scripts using the latter instead of the former. Just my 2 yinyangs. Ciao, Dscho - 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