From: "J.H." <warthog19@eaglescrag.net>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "René Scharfe" <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>,
git-dev@github.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] archive: support gzipped tar files
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:25:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DF7B59D.30306@eaglescrag.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110614181821.GA32685@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On 06/14/2011 11:18 AM, Jeff King wrote:
> git-archive already supports the creation of tar files. For
> local cases, one can simply pipe the output to gzip, and
> having git-archive do the gzip is a minor convenience.
>
> However, when running git-archive against a remote site,
> having the remote side do the compression can save
> considerable bandwidth. Service providers could always wrap
> git-archive to provide that functionality, but this makes it
> much simpler.
>
> Creating gzipped archives is of course more expensive than
> regular tar archives; however, the amount of work should be
> comparable to that of creating a zip file, which is already
> possible. So there should be no new security implications
> with respect to creating load on a remote server.
Would it make sense to make this a little more generic and support bz2
and xz as well?
- John 'Warthog9' Hawley
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-14 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-14 18:17 [PATCH 1/2] archive: factor out write phase of tar format Jeff King
2011-06-14 18:18 ` [PATCH 2/2] archive: support gzipped tar files Jeff King
2011-06-14 19:25 ` J.H. [this message]
2011-06-14 19:30 ` Jeff King
2011-06-14 19:39 ` René Scharfe
2011-06-14 20:14 ` Jeff King
2011-06-14 20:45 ` Jeff King
2011-06-15 22:30 ` [RFC/PATCH 0/7] user-configurable git-archive output formats Jeff King
2011-06-15 22:31 ` [PATCH 1/7] archive: reorder option parsing and config reading Jeff King
2011-06-15 22:33 ` [PATCH 2/7] archive: add user-configurable tar-filter infrastructure Jeff King
2011-06-15 23:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-16 0:29 ` Jeff King
2011-06-15 22:33 ` [PATCH 3/7] archive: support user tar-filters via --format Jeff King
2011-06-15 22:33 ` [PATCH 4/7] archive: advertise user tar-filters in --list Jeff King
2011-06-15 22:34 ` [PATCH 5/7] archive: refactor format-guessing from filename Jeff King
2011-06-15 23:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-16 0:34 ` Jeff King
2011-06-15 22:34 ` [PATCH 6/7] archive: match extensions from user-configured formats Jeff King
2011-06-15 22:35 ` [PATCH 7/7] archive: provide builtin .tar.gz filter Jeff King
2011-06-15 23:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-15 23:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-16 0:38 ` Jeff King
2011-06-16 6:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-16 6:51 ` Jeff King
2011-06-16 7:56 ` Chris Webb
2011-06-16 17:46 ` Jeff King
2011-06-16 18:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-16 18:21 ` Jeff King
2011-06-16 18:27 ` John Szakmeister
2011-06-16 18:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-16 18:57 ` Jeff King
2011-06-18 14:52 ` [RFC/PATCH 0/7] user-configurable git-archive output formats René Scharfe
2011-06-18 15:28 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-20 15:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-22 1:19 ` [PATCHv2 0/9] configurable tar compressors Jeff King
2011-06-22 1:20 ` [PATCHv2 1/9] archive: reorder option parsing and config reading Jeff King
2011-06-22 1:22 ` [PATCHv2 2/9] archive-tar: don't reload default config options Jeff King
2011-06-22 1:23 ` [PATCHv2 3/9] archive: refactor list of archive formats Jeff King
2011-06-23 17:05 ` Thiago Farina
2011-06-23 17:30 ` Jeff King
2011-06-22 1:24 ` [PATCHv2 4/9] archive: pass archiver struct to write_archive callback Jeff King
2011-06-22 1:24 ` [PATCHv2 5/9] archive: move file extension format-guessing lower Jeff King
2011-06-22 1:25 ` [PATCHv2 6/9] archive: refactor file extension format-guessing Jeff King
2011-06-22 1:26 ` [PATCHv2 7/9] archive: implement configurable tar filters Jeff King
2011-06-22 1:45 ` Jeff King
2011-06-22 6:09 ` René Scharfe
2011-06-22 14:59 ` Jeff King
2011-06-22 1:27 ` [PATCHv2 8/9] archive: provide builtin .tar.gz filter Jeff King
2011-06-22 1:35 ` [PATCHv2 9/9] upload-archive: allow user to turn off filters Jeff King
2011-06-22 3:17 ` Jeff King
2011-06-21 16:01 ` [RFC/PATCH 0/7] user-configurable git-archive output formats Jeff King
2011-06-18 15:40 ` René Scharfe
2011-06-14 20:30 ` [PATCH 2/2] archive: support gzipped tar files Junio C Hamano
2011-06-14 20:49 ` Jeff King
2011-06-14 23:40 ` Miles Bader
2011-06-15 22:46 ` Jeff King
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