Re: [PATCH 0/1] Fix format detection when archiving remotely

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 04:19:27PM -0700, steadmon@google.com wrote:

Currently, git-archive does not properly determine the desired archive
format when both --output and --remote are provided, because
run_remote_archiver() does not initialize the archivers prior to calling
archive_format_from_filename(). This results in the remote archiver
always returning a TAR file, regardless of the requested format.

This patch initializes the TAR and ZIP archivers before calling
archive_format_from_filename(), which fixes format detection.

It seems like some of this content could be in the commit message of the
actual patch.

Steps to reproduce:

∫ git version
git version 2.19.1.568.g152ad8e336-goog
∫ cd ~/src/git
∫ git archive --output ~/good.zip HEAD
∫ file ~/good.zip
/home/steadmon/good.zip: Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract
∫ git archive --output ~/bad.zip --remote=. HEAD
∫ file ~/bad.zip
/home/steadmon/bad.zip: POSIX tar archive

And this could be in a test script in the actual patch. :)

-Peff