Re: [PATCH 0/9] git archive: use gzip again by default, document output stabilty

Phillip Wood [off-list ref] writes:

... Reverting the change
gives the misleading impression that we're making a commitment to
keeping the output stable. The focus of this thread seems to be the
problems relating to github which they have already addressed.

I think there is general agreement that it is not practical to promise
that the compressed output of "git archive" is stable so maybe it is
better to make that clear now while users can work around it in the
short term with a config setting rather than waiting until we're faced
with some security or other issue that forces a change to the output
which users cannot work around so easily.

I love to see somebody else play the devil's advocate role.  Thanks
for all of the above.