On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 04:19:27PM -0700, steadmon@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Currently, git-archive does not properly determine the desired archive > format when both --output and --remote are provided, because > run_remote_archiver() does not initialize the archivers prior to calling > archive_format_from_filename(). This results in the remote archiver > always returning a TAR file, regardless of the requested format. > > This patch initializes the TAR and ZIP archivers before calling > archive_format_from_filename(), which fixes format detection. It seems like some of this content could be in the commit message of the actual patch. > Steps to reproduce: > > ∫ git version > git version 2.19.1.568.g152ad8e336-goog > ∫ cd ~/src/git > ∫ git archive --output ~/good.zip HEAD > ∫ file ~/good.zip > /home/steadmon/good.zip: Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract > ∫ git archive --output ~/bad.zip --remote=. HEAD > ∫ file ~/bad.zip > /home/steadmon/bad.zip: POSIX tar archive And this could be in a test script in the actual patch. :) -Peff
