--- a/mercurial/archival.py Wed Jul 14 20:41:01 2010 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/archival.py Wed Jul 14 20:25:31 2010 +0200
@@ -35,6 +35,20 @@
raise util.Abort(_('archive prefix contains illegal components'))
return prefix
+exts = {
+ 'tar': ['.tar'],
+ 'tbz2': ['.tbz2', '.tar.bz2'],
+ 'tgz': ['.tgz', '.tar.gz'],
+ 'zip': ['.zip'],
+ }
+
+def guesskind(dest):
+ for kind, extensions in exts.iteritems():
+ if util.any(dest.endswith(ext) for ext in extensions):
+ return kind
+ return None
+
+
class tarit(object):
'''write archive to tar file or stream. can write uncompressed,
or compress with gzip or bzip2.'''