[merge] let tarball exports write to '-' as stdout
Andrew Bennetts
andrew at canonical.com
Thu May 29 14:13:33 BST 2008
Martin Pool wrote:
> A semi-trivial user request.
>
> Normally we create a root directory in the tarball (which is good
> practice) based on the name of the output file; we can't do that if we
> don't know it. At the moment this uses '-' which is kind of
> consistent but also a bit weird.
Possibly the branch nick would be a good substitute. The nick would need to be
filtered similiarly to "bzr send"'s default filename (IIRC), though, to avoid
characters like "/".
Or perhaps --root should just be mandatory with an output file of "-".
-Andrew.
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