From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Cc: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>,
Brendan Miller <catphive@catphive.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: obnoxious CLI complaints
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:23:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200909102223.31602.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43d8ce650909101246l50189c97r4f3fc4a8d7a0bd4@mail.gmail.com>
Dnia czwartek 10. września 2009 21:46, John Tapsell napisał:
> 2009/9/10 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:
> > First, it would be consistent with how ordinary archivers such as tar
> > or zip are used, where you have to specify list of files to archive
> > (in our case this list is HEAD). Second, I'd rather not accidentally
> > dump binary to terminal: "git archive [HEAD]" dumps archive to standard
> > output.
>
> That could be fixed by outputting to a file. git format-patch outputs
> to a file, so why wouldn't git achieve?
"git format-patch" outputs to files because it generates _multiple_
files; generating single patch is special case. Also git-format-patch
can generate file names from patch (commit) subject; it is not the case
for "git archive" (what name should it use?).
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-10 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-09 21:27 obnoxious CLI complaints Brendan Miller
2009-09-09 21:54 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-09-09 22:06 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2009-09-10 16:50 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-09-10 18:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-10 22:19 ` René Scharfe
2009-09-11 3:15 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-09-10 19:46 ` John Tapsell
2009-09-10 20:17 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-09-10 20:23 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2009-09-10 22:04 ` John Tapsell
2009-09-10 22:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-10 23:19 ` demerphq
2009-09-11 0:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-11 0:18 ` John Tapsell
2009-09-11 0:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-10 0:09 ` Brendan Miller
2009-09-10 1:25 ` Todd Zullinger
2009-09-10 9:16 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-09-10 18:18 ` Eric Schaefer
2009-09-10 18:52 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-09-10 22:19 ` René Scharfe
2009-09-11 14:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-11 22:01 ` René Scharfe
2009-09-11 22:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-12 10:31 ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-12 18:32 ` John Tapsell
2009-09-12 21:44 ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-12 22:21 ` John Tapsell
2009-09-12 22:35 ` A Large Angry SCM
2009-09-12 22:43 ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-12 23:08 ` John Tapsell
2009-09-13 2:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-13 17:36 ` [PATCH 1/2] git-archive: add '-o' as a alias for '--output' Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-13 17:36 ` [PATCH 2/2] teach git-archive to auto detect the output format Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-13 18:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-13 20:17 ` [PATCH v2 " Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-13 21:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-13 18:34 ` [PATCH 1/2] git-archive: add '-o' as a alias for '--output' Junio C Hamano
2009-09-13 20:13 ` [PATCH v2 " Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-17 0:48 ` obnoxious CLI complaints Brendan Miller
2009-09-17 1:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-09 21:58 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-09-09 22:58 ` Pierre Habouzit
2009-09-10 1:32 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-09-10 18:54 ` Matthieu Moy
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