Re: [PATCH] Add git-zip-tree to .gitignore

Rene Scharfe [off-list ref] writes:

That is sensible.

Although it was my fault applying it already to "master" without
asking this question first, I started to wonder how many more
archive format people would want, and if it might make more
sense to consolidate git-*-tree into a single frontend with an
option to specify the archiver.

We would obviously need to keep git-tar-tree as a backward
compatibility alias for "git archive-tree -f tar", but doing
things that way we do not have to introduce unbounded number of
new git-{zip,rar,...}-tree programs.

Junio C Hamano schrieb:

Although it was my fault applying it already to "master" without 
asking this question first, I started to wonder how many more archive
format people would want, and if it might make more sense to
consolidate git-*-tree into a single frontend with an option to
specify the archiver.

We would obviously need to keep git-tar-tree as a backward 
compatibility alias for "git archive-tree -f tar", but doing things
that way we do not have to introduce unbounded number of new
git-{zip,rar,...}-tree programs.

That thought occurred to me, too.  I guess there are not that many more
interesting archive formats, though.  Can we defer adding
git-archive-tree until a third archive format command appears?  I won't
submit another one, I promise. ;-)

René