On 15/10/21 23.50, Junio C Hamano wrote:
I do not think it is a good idea to remove the backend-specific option section like this patch does, as the next archiver may not even support `-<digit>`. Even with the existing two backends, the description of it need to be different (cf. the other response I sent you last night on "--fast/--best"?). Rather, the first thing to improve would be to _add_ a section for `tar` format, next to the `zip` format, I would think, as those who wants to write `tar` do not have to read `zip` specific options, and vice versa. The new paragraph on `-#` in the patch may work as a replacement for existing explanation for `zip`-specific extra options, but it needs to drop the changes made to make it applicable to any format, like "depending on ... backend" and "(zip only)" if we want to take it.
In current situation, both zip and tar backend supports the compression level option, so it will end up duplicating description of the option for both backends (with slight differences).
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