From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 15/15] user-manual: Use --format=tar.gz to create a gzipped tarball Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:52:23 -0800 Message-ID: <7vk3qfrdco.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <7vzjzexv8l.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <92a02e35df3dab70928e56e6790417243beea2af.1360508415.git.wking@tremily.us> <7va9rbst37.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20130210223239.GE8377@odin.tremily.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Git To: "W. Trevor King" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Feb 10 23:52:59 2013 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 1U4flZ-0001X9-JR for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:52:57 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757145Ab3BJWwc (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:52:32 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:40639 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757048Ab3BJWwa (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:52:30 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39BA4C251; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:52:30 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=zBnDYXJGITbgjl0ZxG6ZsEOGEdY=; b=sX+0fv 5MxgoAU6Ti/2qZ5UVkN05/536a/MaWP/dROcMWy3pwynsrX6aX6RrexVilhHK+kO DjjwfkZXhqgehl2gkO6Ed9Zu4SI5vBV65ZLARte92Aojg7kVzyBRr9HjAUfDq9Hc Xo+40u3rE8nZmCfNOjf5O1gUCIhMMBJOKJeLY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=Do1OyVaAFsuNg0X41cnGbtqhbuPv6X4b VzpCIwFSYhMpyec/THz04dEthTDqpu1NOBe6CTTOJyVQR1nIzug9gBy9VsuTLJ7A eS7RO2PtcGeTxaofHINCufckyCxQqKYtYv5l2FXvmI/MZX34pylg0ka9O4biE2+6 J8wRyLrqphU= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A345C24B; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:52:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D2080C240; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:52:28 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20130210223239.GE8377@odin.tremily.us> (W. Trevor King's message of "Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:32:40 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 8BC9902A-73D4-11E2-99DC-BCD12E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: "W. Trevor King" writes: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 02:27:08PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> This is a "meh" at least to me. Unless it uses something like >> >> git archive -o latest.tar.gz --prefix=project/ HEAD >> >> it is not all that interesting. > > Great suggestion. My original goal was to remove the pipe, but if we > can remove the redirection too, that's one less POSIX-ism for newbies > to wonder about ;). I was referring to more about the implicit format recognition not pipe.