On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:52:00AM -0400, C. Michael Pilato wrote: > That said, I too am less than thrilled about adding what amounts to Yet > Another Implementation Of the Tar Archive Algorithm to our codebase, and > still more disappointed to think that the minute we do this the Windows > users will be clamoring for Zip or 7z or something else. > > I've closed issue 3645 as WONTFIX with a similar explanation (and a > recommended alternative feature that would be more generally useful).
+1 We do have code which duplicates functionality of other tools, such as svn diff and svn patch. But those have added value over the standard tools. I don't see any added value in having built-in archiving functionality in svn export, because its output can already be archived. And it's not hard to write a small shell function or script or Makefile snippet that automates this task. Stefan
