Re: [PATCH] gitweb: change filename/directory name of snapshots

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 10:43:04AM CEST, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net> writes:
> 
> > /.git or .git is removed from the project name and the
> > basename of the remaining path is used as the beginning of
> > the filename and as the directory in the archive.
> >
> > The regexp will actually not strip off /.git or .git if there
> > wouldn't be anything left after removing it.
> >
> > Currently the full project name is used as directory in the
> > archive and the basename is used as filename.  For example a
> > repository named foo/bar/.git will have a archive named
> > .git-<version>.* and extract to foo/bar/.git.  With this patch
> > the file is named bar-<version>.* and extracts to bar.
> 
> Makes sense to me for "foo/bar/.git", but I am not sure if we
> would want to do this to "foo/bar.git".  Opinions?

I wouldn't personally really mind getting rid of the .git suffix in both
cases.  Yes, we are used to seeing the ".git" in the name, but I can't
think of any other reasons not to chop it off.

Having the .git in the archive name might be even more confusing since
there is a pseudo-convention (that I'm not sure anyone except me
follows, so maybe not :) that repositories have .git in the name while
working trees don't, and that tarball contains a working tree.

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