Re: [PATCH] Add git-zip-tree to .gitignore

[Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>]

Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> Although it was my fault applying it already to "master" without 
> asking this question first, I started to wonder how many more archive
> format people would want, and if it might make more sense to
> consolidate git-*-tree into a single frontend with an option to
> specify the archiver.
> 
> We would obviously need to keep git-tar-tree as a backward 
> compatibility alias for "git archive-tree -f tar", but doing things
> that way we do not have to introduce unbounded number of new
> git-{zip,rar,...}-tree programs.

That thought occurred to me, too.  I guess there are not that many more
interesting archive formats, though.  Can we defer adding
git-archive-tree until a third archive format command appears?  I won't
submit another one, I promise. ;-)

René