Re: obnoxious CLI complaints

John Tapsell [off-list ref] writes:

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       git archive >my.file.tar

I thought you didn't like this because then you dump binary to the
console by default ?

No. That objection came from Jakub and I said it did not make sense to me.

Why would it be so bad to do:

git archive -f - | down stream commands

Are you seriously asking "why" after I said this?

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and people who want to pipe (which is 99% of the use pattern for me) can
say

If you really need it to be spelled out,...

Because I have to say "-f -" 99% of the time without no good reason.