Re: [PATCH][RFC] Add git-archive-tree

Rene Scharfe [off-list ref] writes:

Does it make sense to change the wire protocol to simply send the
command line options one by one?

Which wire protocol are you talking about?  The one between
upload-tar and local "tar-tree --remote"?  I think that one was
a tar-tree specific hack and we do not want to mimic it.

Your idea of making archiver neutral upload/download pair makes
sense.  The daemon can invoke upload-archive with a single
parameter (the repository, "."), just like upload_tar() in
"pu:daemon.c" does [*1*], and upload-archive talks with the
other end to know which archiver to run with what paramter.  We
would probably want to use some sort of side-band mechanism so
that we can do progress-bar as well.


*1* Unrelated side note.  I find myself typing "git less" quite
    often ;-)

	git less pu:daemon.c

    and get "no such command, dummy" response.  

    Yes, I know I could alias it to "-p cat-file -p".  I am just
    too lazy to do so.



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