From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Scripts to use "bundles" for moving data between repositories Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:20:56 -0800 Message-ID: <7v8xf0ppmf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <11714622292110-git-send-email-mdl123@verizon.net> <7vlkj0r7f0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <45D34D58.8050701@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Levedahl X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 14 19:21:02 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HHOkW-0001F5-UN for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:21:01 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932427AbXBNSU6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:20:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932428AbXBNSU6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:20:58 -0500 Received: from fed1rmmtao104.cox.net ([68.230.241.42]:35342 "EHLO fed1rmmtao104.cox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932427AbXBNSU5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:20:57 -0500 Received: from fed1rmimpo02.cox.net ([70.169.32.72]) by fed1rmmtao104.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.05.02.00 201-2174-114-20060621) with ESMTP id <20070214182058.HHKN22948.fed1rmmtao104.cox.net@fed1rmimpo02.cox.net>; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:20:58 -0500 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.5.247.80]) by fed1rmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id PWLw1W00r1kojtg0000000; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:20:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: <45D34D58.8050701@verizon.net> (Mark Levedahl's message of "Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:56:40 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Mark Levedahl writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> I think something like this is a good addition but I do not want >> us to require zip/unzip to use git. I think saner alternative >> would be to use tar. >> >> >> > That is any easy change. As the dominant content is an already > compressed pack file, is tar sufficient or should it be a gzip or bzip > tar? If you are re-spinning the patch, please do not forget that you would want to link it in the main Makefile and link the docs to git.7 by adding them to Documentation/cmd-list.perl. The USAGE string should fit comfortably on 80-column terminal. The same goes for AsciiDoc text documentation. Your lines are too long.