On 2018.10.19 19:41, Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 04:19:27PM -0700, stead...@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.
Ack. I'll be sending v2 shortly, please let me know if I've missed anything that should be included. > > 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. :) Done.