From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Subject: Re: gitpacker progress report and a question Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:05:35 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20121115230535.GB25000@thyrsus.com> References: <20121115212818.GA21558@thyrsus.com> <877E14DE-313D-4863-980B-13D077230F7F@quendi.de> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Max Horn X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 16 00:06:28 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TZ8Vs-0004RQ-Ex for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:06:24 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750988Ab2KOXGK (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:06:10 -0500 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:59185 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750871Ab2KOXGJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:06:09 -0500 Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 53B2A4065B; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:05:35 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <877E14DE-313D-4863-980B-13D077230F7F@quendi.de> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Max Horn : > > I'm still looking for a better name for it and would welcome suggestions. > > Isn't "gitar" the kind of natural choice? ;) At least for a stand-alone tool, not for a git subcommand. I just renamed it git-weave. I keep talking about tarballs because I keep thinking about using it archeologically on projects that only exist as tarball sequences, but the tool actually oacks and unpacks *file tree* sequences. -- Eric S. Raymond