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* git-archive: work in bare reposCharles Bailey2008-10-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | This moves the call to git_config to a place where it doesn't break the logic for using git archive in a bare repository but retains the fix to make git archive respect core.autocrlf. Tests are by René Scharfe. Signed-off-by: Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org> Tested-by: Deskin Miller <deskinm@umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Make git archive respect core.autocrlf when creating zip format archivesCharles Bailey2008-09-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is currently no call to git_config at the start of cmd_archive. When creating tar archives the core config is read as a side-effect of reading the tar specific config, but this doesn't happen for zip archives. The consequence is that in a configuration with core.autocrlf set, although files in a tar archive are created with crlf line endings, files in a zip archive retain unix line endings. Signed-off-by: Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org> Acked-by: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Start conforming code to "git subcmd" styleHeikki Orsila2008-08-30
| | | | | | | | User notifications are presented as 'git cmd', and code comments are presented as '"cmd"' or 'git's cmd', rather than 'git-cmd'. Signed-off-by: Heikki Orsila <heikki.orsila@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* archive: allow --exec and --remote without equal signRene Scharfe2008-07-25
| | | | | | | | | Allow "--remote repo" and "--exec cmd" in addition to "--remote=repo" and "--exec=cmd" to make their usage consistent with parameters handled by parse_options(). Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* archive: move parameter parsing code to archive.cRene Scharfe2008-07-25
| | | | | | | | | | | write_archive() in archive.c is the only callsite for the command line parsing functions located in builtin-archive.c. Move them to the place where they are used, un-export them and make them static, as hinted at by Stephan. Cc: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* archive: add write_archive()Rene Scharfe2008-07-25
| | | | | | | | | Both archive and upload-archive have to parse command line arguments and then call the archiver specific write function. Move the duplicate code to a new function, write_archive(). Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* archive: remove unused headersRené Scharfe2008-07-19
| | | | | | | Remove obsolete #includes. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* archive: make zip compression level independent from core gitRené Scharfe2008-07-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | zlib_compression_level is the compression level used for git's object store. It's 1 by default, which is the fastest setting. This variable is also used as the default compression level for ZIP archives created by git archive. For archives, however, zlib's own default of 6 is more appropriate, as it's favouring small size over speed -- archive creation is not that performance critical most of the time. This patch makes git archive independent from git's internal compression level setting. It affects invocations of git archive without explicitly specified compression level option, only. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Merge branch 'sb/dashless'Junio C Hamano2008-07-16
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * sb/dashless: Make usage strings dash-less t/: Use "test_must_fail git" instead of "! git" t/test-lib.sh: exit with small negagive int is ok with test_must_fail Conflicts: builtin-blame.c builtin-mailinfo.c builtin-mailsplit.c builtin-shortlog.c git-am.sh t/t4150-am.sh t/t4200-rerere.sh
| * Make usage strings dash-lessStephan Beyer2008-07-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When you misuse a git command, you are shown the usage string. But this is currently shown in the dashed form. So if you just copy what you see, it will not work, when the dashed form is no longer supported. This patch makes git commands show the dash-less version. For shell scripts that do not specify OPTIONS_SPEC, git-sh-setup.sh generates a dash-less usage string now. Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | archive: remove extra arguments parsing codeRené Scharfe2008-07-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace the code that calls backend specific argument parsers by a simple flag mechanism. This reduces code size and complexity. We can add back such a mechanism (based on incremental parse_opt(), perhaps) when we need it. The compression level parameter, though, is going to be shared by future compressing backends like tgz. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | archive: add baselen member to struct archiver_argsRené Scharfe2008-07-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Calculate the length of base and save it in a new member of struct archiver_args. This way we don't have to compute it in each of the format backends. Note: parse_archive_args() guarantees that ->base won't ever be NULL. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | archive: remove args member from struct archiverRené Scharfe2008-07-15
|/ | | | | | | | | Pass struct archiver and struct archiver_args explicitly to parse_archive_args and remove the latter from the former. This allows us to get rid of struct archiver_desc and simplifies the code a bit. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Move sha1_file_to_archive into libgitLars Hjemli2008-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | When the specfile (export-subst) attribute was introduced, it added a dependency from archive-{tar|zip}.c to builtin-archive.c. This broke the support for archive-operations in libgit.a since builtin-archive.o doesn't belong in libgit.a. This patch moves the functions required by libgit.a from builtin-archive.c to the new file archive.c (which becomes part of libgit.a). Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Merge branch 'js/forkexec'Junio C Hamano2007-11-01
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * js/forkexec: Use the asyncronous function infrastructure to run the content filter. Avoid a dup2(2) in apply_filter() - start_command() can do it for us. t0021-conversion.sh: Test that the clean filter really cleans content. upload-pack: Run rev-list in an asynchronous function. upload-pack: Move the revision walker into a separate function. Use the asyncronous function infrastructure in builtin-fetch-pack.c. Add infrastructure to run a function asynchronously. upload-pack: Use start_command() to run pack-objects in create_pack_file(). Have start_command() create a pipe to read the stderr of the child. Use start_comand() in builtin-fetch-pack.c instead of explicit fork/exec. Use run_command() to spawn external diff programs instead of fork/exec. Use start_command() to run content filters instead of explicit fork/exec. Use start_command() in git_connect() instead of explicit fork/exec. Change git_connect() to return a struct child_process instead of a pid_t. Conflicts: builtin-fetch-pack.c
| * Change git_connect() to return a struct child_process instead of a pid_t.Johannes Sixt2007-10-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This prepares the API of git_connect() and finish_connect() to operate on a struct child_process. Currently, we just use that object as a placeholder for the pid that we used to return. A follow-up patch will change the implementation of git_connect() and finish_connect() to make full use of the object. Old code had early-return-on-error checks at the calling sites of git_connect(), but since git_connect() dies on errors anyway, these checks were removed. [sp: Corrected style nit of "conn == NULL" to "!conn"] Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* | Correct some sizeof(size_t) != sizeof(unsigned long) typing errorsRené Scharfe2007-10-22
|/ | | | | | | | Fix size_t vs. unsigned long pointer mismatch warnings introduced with the addition of strbuf_detach(). Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* strbuf change: be sure ->buf is never ever NULL.Pierre Habouzit2007-09-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For that purpose, the ->buf is always initialized with a char * buf living in the strbuf module. It is made a char * so that we can sloppily accept things that perform: sb->buf[0] = '\0', and because you can't pass "" as an initializer for ->buf without making gcc unhappy for very good reasons. strbuf_init/_detach/_grow have been fixed to trust ->alloc and not ->buf anymore. as a consequence strbuf_detach is _mandatory_ to detach a buffer, copying ->buf isn't an option anymore, if ->buf is going to escape from the scope, and eventually be free'd. API changes: * strbuf_setlen now always works, so just make strbuf_reset a convenience macro. * strbuf_detatch takes a size_t* optional argument (meaning it can be NULL) to copy the buffer's len, as it was needed for this refactor to make the code more readable, and working like the callers. Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Rewrite convert_to_{git,working_tree} to use strbuf's.Pierre Habouzit2007-09-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Now, those functions take an "out" strbuf argument, where they store their result if any. In that case, it also returns 1, else it returns 0. * those functions support "in place" editing, in the sense that it's OK to call them this way: convert_to_git(path, sb->buf, sb->len, sb); When doable, conversions are done in place for real, else the strbuf content is just replaced with the new one, transparentely for the caller. If you want to create a new filter working this way, being the accumulation of filter1, filter2, ... filtern, then your meta_filter would be: int meta_filter(..., const char *src, size_t len, struct strbuf *sb) { int ret = 0; ret |= filter1(...., src, len, sb); if (ret) { src = sb->buf; len = sb->len; } ret |= filter2(...., src, len, sb); if (ret) { src = sb->buf; len = sb->len; } .... return ret | filtern(..., src, len, sb); } That's why subfilters the convert_to_* functions called were also rewritten to work this way. Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* archive: fix subst file generationRené Scharfe2007-09-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before the strbuf conversion, result was a char pointer. The if statement checked for it being not NULL, which meant that no "$Format:...$" string had been found and no replacement had to be made. format_subst() returned NULL in that case -- the caller then simply kept the original file content, as it was unaffected by the expansion. The length of the string being 0 is not the same as the string being NULL (expansion to an empty string vs. no expansion at all), so checking result.len != 0 is not a full replacement for the old NULL check. However, I doubt the subtle optimization explained above resulted in a notable speed-up anyway. Simplify the code and add the tail of the file to the expanded string unconditionally. [jc: added a test to expose the breakage this fixes] Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Rework pretty_print_commit to use strbufs instead of custom buffers.Pierre Habouzit2007-09-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Also remove the "len" parameter, as: (1) it was used as a max boundary, and every caller used ~0u (2) we check for final NUL no matter what, so it doesn't help for speed. As a result most of the pp_* function takes 3 arguments less, and we need a lot less local variables, this makes the code way more readable, and easier to extend if needed. This patch also fixes some spacing and cosmetic issues. This patch also fixes (as a side effect) a memory leak intoruced in builtin-archive.c at commit df4a394f (fmt was xmalloc'ed and not free'd) Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* archive - leakfix for format_subst()Junio C Hamano2007-09-10
| | | | Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* archive: rename attribute specfile to export-substRené Scharfe2007-09-06
| | | | | | | | | | As suggested by Junio and Johannes, change the name of the former attribute specfile to export-subst to indicate its function rather than purpose and to make clear that it is not applied to working tree files. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* archive: specfile syntax change: "$Format:%PLCHLDR$" instead of just ↵René Scharfe2007-09-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | "%PLCHLDR" (take 2) As suggested by Johannes, --pretty=format: placeholders in specfiles need to be wrapped in $Format:...$ now. This syntax change restricts the expansion of placeholders and makes it easier to use with files that contain non-placeholder percent signs. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* archive: specfile support (--pretty=format: in archive files)René Scharfe2007-09-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add support for a new attribute, specfile. Files marked as being specfiles are expanded by git-archive when they are written to an archive. It has no effect on worktree files. The same placeholders as those for the option --pretty=format: of git-log et al. can be used. The attribute is useful for creating auto-updating specfiles. It is limited by the underlying function format_commit_message(), though. E.g. currently there is no placeholder for git-describe like output, and expanded specfiles can't contain NUL bytes. That can be fixed in format_commit_message() later and will then benefit users of git-log, too. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* connect: display connection progressMichael S. Tsirkin2007-05-16
| | | | | | | | | | Make git notify the user about host resolution/connection attempts. This is useful both as a progress indicator on slow links, and helps reassure the user there are no firewall problems. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* git-archive: make tar the default formatRené Scharfe2007-04-09
| | | | | | | | As noted by Junio, --format=tar should be assumed if no format was specified. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Revert "builtin-archive: use RUN_SETUP"René Scharfe2007-04-05
| | | | | | | | | | Commit 64edf4b2 cleaned up the initialization of git-archive, at the cost of 'git-archive --list' now requiring a git repo. This patch reverts the cleanup and documents the requirement for this particular dirtyness in a test. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Merge branch 'maint'Junio C Hamano2007-03-03
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * maint: Unset NO_C99_FORMAT on Cygwin. Fix a "pointer type missmatch" warning. Fix some "comparison is always true/false" warnings. Fix an "implicit function definition" warning. Fix a "label defined but unreferenced" warning. Document the config variable format.suffix git-merge: fail correctly when we cannot fast forward. builtin-archive: use RUN_SETUP Fix git-gc usage note
| * builtin-archive: use RUN_SETUPJohannes Schindelin2007-03-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | It used to roll its own setup. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* | prefixcmp(): fix-up mechanical conversion.Junio C Hamano2007-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previous step converted use of strncmp() with literal string mechanically even when the result is only used as a boolean: if (!strncmp("foo", arg, 3)) ==> if (!(-prefixcmp(arg, "foo"))) This step manually cleans them up to read: if (!prefixcmp(arg, "foo")) Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* | Mechanical conversion to use prefixcmp()Junio C Hamano2007-02-20
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This mechanically converts strncmp() to use prefixcmp(), but only when the parameters match specific patterns, so that they can be verified easily. Leftover from this will be fixed in a separate step, including idiotic conversions like if (!strncmp("foo", arg, 3)) => if (!(-prefixcmp(arg, "foo"))) This was done by using this script in px.perl #!/usr/bin/perl -i.bak -p if (/strncmp\(([^,]+), "([^\\"]*)", (\d+)\)/ && (length($2) == $3)) { s|strncmp\(([^,]+), "([^\\"]*)", (\d+)\)|prefixcmp($1, "$2")|; } if (/strncmp\("([^\\"]*)", ([^,]+), (\d+)\)/ && (length($1) == $3)) { s|strncmp\("([^\\"]*)", ([^,]+), (\d+)\)|(-prefixcmp($2, "$1"))|; } and running: $ git grep -l strncmp -- '*.c' | xargs perl px.perl Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Make sure git_connect() always give two file descriptors.Junio C Hamano2007-01-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Earlier, git_connect() returned the same fd twice or two separate fds, depending on the way the connection was made (when we are talking to the other end over a single socket, we used the same fd twice, and when our end is connected to a pipepair we used two). This forced callers who do close() and dup() to really care which was which, and most of the existing callers got this wrong, although without much visible ill effect. Many were closing the same fd twice when we are talking over a single socket, and one was leaking a fd. This fixes it to uniformly use two separate fds, so if somebody wants to close only reader side can just do close() on it without worrying about it accidentally also closing the writer side or vice versa. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* builtin-archive: do not free a tree held by the object layer.Junio C Hamano2007-01-09
| | | | | | | | | Found by running "git archive --format=tar HEAD" in Documentation/ directory. It's surprising that nobody has noticed this from the beginning... Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* simplify inclusion of system header files.Junio C Hamano2006-12-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a mechanical clean-up of the way *.c files include system header files. (1) sources under compat/, platform sha-1 implementations, and xdelta code are exempt from the following rules; (2) the first #include must be "git-compat-util.h" or one of our own header file that includes it first (e.g. config.h, builtin.h, pkt-line.h); (3) system headers that are included in "git-compat-util.h" need not be included in individual C source files. (4) "git-compat-util.h" does not have to include subsystem specific header files (e.g. expat.h). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* archive: use setvbuf() instead of setlinebuf()Michal Rokos2006-11-21
| | | | | | | | | | This tiny patch makes GIT compile again on HP-UX 11i. [jc: The setlinebuf() is described as unportable to BSD before 4.2; it's not even in POSIX, while setvbuf() is in ISO C.] Signed-off-by: Michal Rokos <michal.rokos@nextsoft.cz> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Remove unsupported C99 style struct initializers in git-archive.v1.4.3.4Shawn O. Pearce2006-11-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | At least one older version of the Solaris C compiler doesn't support the newer C99 style struct initializers. To allow Git to compile on those systems use an archive description struct which is easier to initialize without the C99 struct initializer syntax. Also since the archives array is not used by anyone other than archive.c we can make it static. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* atomic write for sideband remote messagesNicolas Pitre2006-10-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It has been a few times that I ended up with such a confusing display: |remote: Generating pack... |remote: Done counting 17 objects. |remote: Result has 9 objects. |remote: Deltifying 9 objects. |remote: 100% (9/9) done |remote: Unpacking 9 objects |Total 9, written 9 (delta 8), reused 0 (delta 0) | 100% (9/9) done The confusion can be avoided in most cases by writing the remote message in one go to prevent interleacing with local messages. The buffer declaration has been moved inside recv_sideband() to avoid extra string copies. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* git-archive: inline default_parse_extra()Rene Scharfe2006-09-13
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* builtin-archive.c: rename remote_request() to extract_remote_arg()Junio C Hamano2006-09-12
| | | | | | Suggested by Franck, and I think it makes sense. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Add sideband status report to git-archive protocolJunio C Hamano2006-09-10
| | | | | | | | Using the refactored sideband code from existing upload-pack protocol, this lets the error condition and status output sent from the remote process to be shown locally. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Teach --exec to git-archive --remoteJunio C Hamano2006-09-10
| | | | | | | | | | Some people needed --exec to specify the location of the upload-pack executable, because their default SSH log-in does not include the directory they have their own private copy of git on the $PATH. These people need to be able to say --exec to git-archive --remote for the same reason. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Add --verbose to git-archiveJunio C Hamano2006-09-10
| | | | | | | And teach backends about it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> (cherry picked from 9e2c44a2893ae90944a0b7c9f40a9d22b759b5c0 commit)
* archive: force line buffered output to stderrJunio C Hamano2006-09-10
| | | | | | | | Otherwise the remote notification that comes with -v option can get clumped together. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> (cherry picked from a675cda60ead41f439b04bc69e0f19ace04e59d3 commit)
* archive: allow remote to have more formats than we understand.Junio C Hamano2006-09-09
| | | | | | | | This fixes git-archive --remote not to parse archiver arguments; otherwise if the remote end implements formats other than the one known locally we will not be able to access that format. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* git-archive: make compression level of ZIP archives configurableRene Scharfe2006-09-09
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* git-archive: wire up ZIP format.Franck Bui-Huu2006-09-09
| | | | | | | | | Again, this is based on Rene Scharfe's earlier patch, but uses the archiver support introduced by the previous patch. Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* git-archive: wire up TAR format.Franck Bui-Huu2006-09-09
| | | | | | | | | This is based on Rene Scharfe's earlier patch, but uses the archiver support introduced by the previous patch. Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Add git-archiveFranck Bui-Huu2006-09-09
git-archive is a command to make TAR and ZIP archives of a git tree. It helps prevent a proliferation of git-{format}-tree commands. Instead of directly calling git-{tar,zip}-tree command, it defines a very simple API, that archiver should implement and register in "git-archive.c". This API is made up by 2 functions whose prototype is defined in "archive.h" file. - The first one is used to parse 'extra' parameters which have signification only for the specific archiver. That would allow different archive backends to have different kind of options. - The second one is used to ask to an archive backend to build the archive given some already resolved parameters. The main reason for making this API is to avoid using git-{tar,zip}-tree commands, hence making them useless. Maybe it's time for them to die ? It also implements remote operations by defining a very simple protocol: it first sends the name of the specific uploader followed the repository name (git-upload-tar git://example.org/repo.git). Then it sends options. It's done by sending a sequence of one argument per packet, with prefix "argument ", followed by a flush. The remote protocol is implemented in "git-archive.c" for client side and is triggered by "--remote=<repo>" option. For example, to fetch a TAR archive in a remote repo, you can issue: $ git archive --format=tar --remote=git://xxx/yyy/zzz.git HEAD We choose to not make a new command "git-fetch-archive" for example, avoind one more GIT command which should be nice for users (less commands to remember, keeps existing --remote option). Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>