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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
To: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
	Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>,
	Brendan Miller <catphive@catphive.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: obnoxious CLI complaints
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:17:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e0909101317t4cbfc582k641a64a806ed8dcc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43d8ce650909101246l50189c97r4f3fc4a8d7a0bd4@mail.gmail.com>

Heya,

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 21:46, John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com> wrote:
> That could be fixed by outputting to a file.  git format-patch outputs
> to a file, so why wouldn't git achieve?

Because git format-patch works on a per-patch basis, and patches
inherently have a 'name' (the first line of the commit message), an
entire repository does not, so one would have to resort to arbitrary
names such as 'archive.tar.gz' or such.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-10 20:18 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 [this message]
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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