Re: [PATCH 2/2] archive: support gzipped tar files

On 06/14/2011 11:18 AM, Jeff King wrote:

git-archive already supports the creation of tar files. For
local cases, one can simply pipe the output to gzip, and
having git-archive do the gzip is a minor convenience.

However, when running git-archive against a remote site,
having the remote side do the compression can save
considerable bandwidth. Service providers could always wrap
git-archive to provide that functionality, but this makes it
much simpler.

Creating gzipped archives is of course more expensive than
regular tar archives; however, the amount of work should be
comparable to that of creating a zip file, which is already
possible. So there should be no new security implications
with respect to creating load on a remote server.

Would it make sense to make this a little more generic and support bz2
and xz as well?

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley