Reading https://github.com/galaxyproject/planemo/blob/master/planemo/commands/cmd_shed_upload.py planemo shed_upload currently will construct a tar-ball, and unless --tar_only is used, will upload that tar-ball to the Tool Shed.

For pre-existing development repositories containing multiple tools or suites which map to multiple ToolShed repositories, this seems limiting (see #26). Currently I build my tool/suite tar balls manually (using a documented tar command) or a shell script in order to incorporate specific test files etc, and then the ToolShed web interface to upload the tar ball.

I would like to be able to use planemo shed_upload to push a provided tar-ball to a Galaxy Tool Shed at the command line. e.g. Additional option --tar could accept the path of a pre-made tar-ball to be uploaded (rather than attempting to automatically generate the tar-ball)?