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diff --git a/doc/future-designs/cas-objects-import.md b/doc/future-designs/cas-objects-import.md index 56b54693..a65939f2 100644 --- a/doc/future-designs/cas-objects-import.md +++ b/doc/future-designs/cas-objects-import.md @@ -72,6 +72,19 @@ the command-line `git` tool, a pure computation of the hashes _without_ generating a CAS entry might still be of interest and available as an option. This is, however, not useful in typical situations. +### Auxillary change: `just install-cas --archive` + +Build sources many times come in the form of archives, which allow efficient +storage and backup, and permit easy versioning of build dependencies. Also +build artifacts, for example resulting binaries (together with required headers +when building statically), are typically shipped as archives. + +Therefore, the `just install-cas` command has an option to dump +an artifact, that has to be a tree, as an archive instead of as a +directory (or pretty-printed top-level contents). Remote CAS options +and file location (with stdout as default) are honored. + + Auxiliary changes still to be implemented ----------------------------------------- @@ -81,21 +94,7 @@ To mirror options available in `just-mr` repository descriptions, we will also support options to either ignore, or fully resolve symlinks in the generated Git trees. -### `just-mr` to support `archive` subcommand - -Build sources many times come in the form of archives, which allow efficient -storage and backup, and permit easy versioning of build dependencies. Also -build artifacts, for example resulting binaries (together with required headers -when building statically), are typically shipped as archives. - -The `just-mr` tool will therefore implement a new subcommand `archive` which, -given a tree identifier, with the understanding that the tree is available -locally (either in local CAS or the Git cache), will produce an archive from -the content of that tree. - -The archive content will be written to standard output, thus allowing the usual -piping and redirection of binary streams. Optionally, the subcommand will be -able to write to a file instead. +### `just install-cas --archive` to support different archive types By default, for reproducibility reasons, the archiving format will be a tarball. Options will be added to produce other archive types, as supported by `just-mr`. |