John Tapsell <johnflux@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> git archive >my.file.tar > > I thought you didn't like this because then you dump binary to the > console by default ? No. That objection came from Jakub and I said it did not make sense to me. > Why would it be so bad to do: > > git archive -f - | down stream commands Are you seriously asking "why" after I said this? >> and people who want to pipe (which is 99% of the use pattern for me) can >> say If you really need it to be spelled out,... Because I have to say "-f -" 99% of the time without no good reason. -- 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