Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 06:56:41PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > It might be a bit more obvious to find if we actually had a >> > --no-pax-header option, though. >> >> Yeah, we would need to make sure that --no-pack-header causes a barf >> for other backends, though. "struct archiver_args" right now seems to have >> compression_level but I think it should just have "const char **" that is >> interpreted by backends. > > Actually, it is relevant for zip, too. The option should really be > called "--no-commit-id" or something similar. I don't think it's as big > a deal with zip (because there is no compatibility issue), but you may > want to omit the header for other reasons (e.g., because you know it > doesn't point to a commit that is public). Hmm, perhaps. It indeed is an implementation detail of the tar backend that the commit object name is stored in pax header, so --no-commit-id might make sense from "git" point of view, but from the point of view of OP that started this thread, he wouldn't care what that extra information is --- it can be a commit object name or it can be phase of the moon when the archive was made --- he just wants the extra header dropped. So I dunno. -- 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