From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: obnoxious CLI complaints Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:25:34 -0700 Message-ID: <7vtyza5nup.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <200909101850.26109.jnareb@gmail.com> <43d8ce650909101246l50189c97r4f3fc4a8d7a0bd4@mail.gmail.com> <200909102223.31602.jnareb@gmail.com> <43d8ce650909101504q32448cb9w562a43969d01b1fe@mail.gmail.com> <7v4ora76vr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <43d8ce650909101718j2f1f77cbgc347ee755145353f@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jakub Narebski , Wincent Colaiuta , Brendan Miller , git@vger.kernel.org To: John Tapsell X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Sep 11 02:26:16 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mltxu-0000Fx-OE for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:26:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751654AbZIKAZq (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:25:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751510AbZIKAZq (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:25:46 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:55171 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751136AbZIKAZq (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:25:46 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 842C32DED8; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:25:47 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=L6Rfy/roEmLXQ5N4JAgjiZeWmSU=; b=bIDKV8 wFvtdz1xbQq+UywcdRL6/d4hOn3rKv8EH0bIkHmEwaKoIsceyui3XfXaVcfzVmKR PBpL/AxPNqKggc79lKEXVuMM76oNvklF2viyrCzsYX39BSh29mESDgDebyUJPaUF Xn2mbVyz/igz/VZvoWSyWJToemCSVqXB+fJxE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=vV4RumOd3qkpp4VCKlp3NJyOEgSyS6x7 KCVst+f4ijU8XHXM92JfM1PjPyhLGhNzFY87Y1K+r3qaGKfyZZKzfqYnOnZfenfm 0fxwxxoMIckkBFMsNTU5FU3sslHmQokM+0ht3+0MB2J23DZJMtLHkmaoZaUF1pJI aOLN9aqWuWo= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 423722DED5; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:25:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5CA5A2DED0; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:25:36 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <43d8ce650909101718j2f1f77cbgc347ee755145353f@mail.gmail.com> (John Tapsell's message of "Fri\, 11 Sep 2009 03\:18\:55 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: A3AC8952-9E69-11DE-8BC5-A13518FFA523-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: John Tapsell writes: >> git archive >my.file.tar > > I thought you didn't like this because then you dump binary to the > console by default ? No. That objection came from Jakub and I said it did not make sense to me. > Why would it be so bad to do: > > git archive -f - | down stream commands Are you seriously asking "why" after I said this? >> and people who want to pipe (which is 99% of the use pattern for me) can >> say If you really need it to be spelled out,... Because I have to say "-f -" 99% of the time without no good reason.