Re: What will happen to git.git in the near future

Hi,

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Rene Scharfe wrote:

Junio C Hamano schrieb:

quoted

 - We should deprecate git-tar-tree.  However, it has been
   around and advertised for quite some time, so we need to make
   sure people would not get burned too badly.  It might be
   worthwhile to rewrite git-tar-tree as a thin wrapper to
   "git-archive --format=tar" and remove git-upload-tar now (in
   other words, "git-tar-tree --remote" will continue to work,
   but it will talk with "git-upload-archive", not with
   "git-upload-tar" on the other end), release 1.4.3 with it
   with a deprecation warning, and then remove it in 1.4.5.

Hmm.  The local case in git-tar-tree is already a thin wrapper.
How about something like this shell script as a replacement for
the entire command?

I think that this could be done very efficiently (both in terms of time 
and size) as a "pure" builtin, i.e. something with works as
"git tar-tree", but not as "git-tar-tree". Of course, this would break 
scripts using the latter instead of the former. Just my 2 yinyangs.

Ciao,
Dscho