From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@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 11:53:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vbpliaaxo.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200909101850.26109.jnareb@gmail.com> (Jakub Narebski's message of "Thu\, 10 Sep 2009 18\:50\:24 +0200")
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> 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.
So does "cat". I do not agree with your second point.
While I somewhat see the similarity argument, your first point, I am not
sure if it is relevant. It is not like "tar or zip allows us to say what
files to archive, but git-archive doesn't and it always archives HEAD";
you are saying "they require us to specify, so should we".
But I do not see a strong reason not to default to HEAD. The case that
would make difference would be to differentiate among
$ git archive HEAD TAIL
$ git archive HEAD -- TAIL
$ git archive -- HEAD TAIL
i.e. what if you happen to have a tracked content called HEAD. I didn't
check the current command line parser in git-archive understands the "--"
convention for that, but it is not a rocket science to add it if it
doesn't.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-10 18:53 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 [this message]
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
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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