{"thread":{"id":"20293","subject":"Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots","startedAt":"2009-07-30T05:48:01Z","lastAt":"2009-08-01T21:39:24Z","messageCount":17,"participants":["Mark A Rada","Johannes Schindelin","Jakub Narebski","J.H.","Felipe Contreras","Alex Riesen","Erik Faye-Lund","Dmitry Potapov","André Goddard Rosa","Jim Meyering"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"119152","messageId":"E0C39B59-E2C5-4C28-9570-D33FEA2A44EB@uwaterloo.ca","threadId":"20293","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots","fromName":"Mark A Rada","fromEmail":"marada@uwaterloo.ca","sentAt":"2009-07-30T05:48:01Z","receivedAt":"2009-07-30T05:48:01Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"marada@uwaterloo.ca","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/38430?v=4"},"body":"Hi,\n\nI thought I would submit this little patch I made to my gitweb. I am \non a relatively slow\nconnection, and so LZMA compression time is less of a concern than \nbandwidth---I'm\nguessing that I am not the only person who suffers from slow internet \nconnection\nsyndrome.\n\n\n--\nMark A Rada (ferrous26)\nmarada@uwaterloo.ca\n\n\n\nFrom a080ce5e8467317a3f20c6de8814549e5c4f46f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001\nFrom: Mark Rada \nDate: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:27:32 -0400\nSubject: [PATCH] Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots\n\nSigned-off-by: Mark Rada \n---\n gitweb/gitweb.perl | 8 ++++++++\n 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)\n\ndiff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl\nindex 38492d0..e131ea4 100755\n--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl\n+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl\n@@ -184,6 +184,13 @@ our %known_snapshot_formats = (\n \t\t'format' => 'tar',\n \t\t'compressor' => ['bzip2']},\n \n+\t'txz' => {\n+\t\t'display' => 'tar.lzma',\n+\t\t'type' => 'application/x-lzma',\n+\t\t'suffix' => '.lzma',\n+\t\t'format' => 'tar',\n+\t\t'compressor' => ['lzma']},\n+\n \t'zip' => {\n \t\t'display' => 'zip',\n \t\t'type' => 'application/x-zip',\n@@ -196,6 +203,7 @@ our %known_snapshot_formats = (\n our %known_snapshot_format_aliases = (\n \t'gzip' => 'tgz',\n \t'bzip2' => 'tbz2',\n+\t'lzma' => 'txz',\n \n \t# backward compatibility: legacy gitweb config support\n \t'x-gzip' => undef, 'gz' => undef,\n-- \n1.6.4\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"},{"id":"119164","messageId":"4A714F5C.70000@eaglescrag.net","threadId":"20293","inReplyTo":"E0C39B59-E2C5-4C28-9570-D33FEA2A44EB@uwaterloo.ca","subject":"Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots","fromName":"J.H.","fromEmail":"warthog19@eaglescrag.net","sentAt":"2009-07-30T07:44:28Z","receivedAt":"2009-07-30T07:44:28Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"warthog19@eaglescrag.net","avatar":null},"body":"Mark A Rada wrote:\n> Hi,\n> \n> I thought I would submit this little patch I made to my gitweb. I am on \n> a relatively slow\n> connection, and so LZMA compression time is less of a concern than \n> bandwidth---I'm\n> guessing that I am not the only person who suffers from slow internet \n> connection\n> syndrome.\n> \n> \n> -- \n> Mark A Rada (ferrous26)\n> marada@uwaterloo.ca\n\nDon't use 'lzma' the command, use 'xz' ( http://tukaani.org/xz/ ) as it \nuses the lzma2 format which is, by far, preferable to what 'lzma' \noutputs. Same compression (lzma) just different file format.\n\n- John 'Warthog9' Hawley\n"},{"id":"119157","messageId":"alpine.DEB.1.00.0907300950180.4589@intel-tinevez-2-302","threadId":"20293","inReplyTo":"E0C39B59-E2C5-4C28-9570-D33FEA2A44EB@uwaterloo.ca","subject":"Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots","fromName":"Johannes Schindelin","fromEmail":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","sentAt":"2009-07-30T07:52:46Z","receivedAt":"2009-07-30T07:52:46Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/127790?v=4"},"body":"Hi,\n\nOn Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Mark A Rada wrote:\n\n> I thought I would submit this little patch I made to my gitweb. I am on \n> a relatively slow connection, and so LZMA compression time is less of a \n> concern than bandwidth---I'm guessing that I am not the only person who \n> suffers from slow internet connection syndrome.\n\nThat's great!\n\nFWIW on this mailing list, we prefer to have patches inlined so that it is \neasier for reviewers to comment (it is almost impossible to get any patch \ninto git.git without review, and because reviewing is such an ungratifying \njob you want to make it easier).\n\nThe patch is pretty straight-forward, but I'd love to see some information \nin the commit message about:\n\n- performance numbers on the _server_ (i.e. how does the RAM and CPU load \n compare to, say, bzip2?)\n\n- how to disable/enable it (yes, it's in the documentation, but you can \n make things easier still)\n\n- whether it is turned on by default, and why.\n\nThanks,\nDscho\n"},{"id":"119162","messageId":"m3r5vy1siq.fsf@localhost.localdomain","threadId":"20293","inReplyTo":"E0C39B59-E2C5-4C28-9570-D33FEA2A44EB@uwaterloo.ca","subject":"Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots","fromName":"Jakub Narebski","fromEmail":"jnareb@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-07-30T08:31:28Z","receivedAt":"2009-07-30T08:31:28Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"jnareb@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2706?v=4"},"body":"Mark A Rada writes:\n\n> I thought I would submit this little patch I made to my gitweb. I am\n> on a relatively slow connection, and so LZMA compression time is\n> less of a concern than bandwidth---I'm guessing that I am not the\n> only person who suffers from slow internet connection syndrome.\n\nFirst, Documentation/SubmittingPatches states that we prefer inline\npatches, with additional comments (like the one above) either between\n\"---\\n\" line and diffstat, or like I did here before patch with patch\nseparated by comment by e.g. \"-- >8 --\\n\" (scissors) line.\n\nIf posting patch inline isn't possible, and you have to use\nattachement (for example because mailer you use wraps lines), please\nat least use 'text/plain' mimetype so patch can be viewed without need\nto save it in separate file (this might require changing suffix from\n'.patch' to '.txt').\n\n\nSecond, if you are using 'txz' as internal name for new snapshot\nformat, why not use 'XZ utils' instead of 'LZMA Utils', and use\n'display' => 'txz', 'type' => 'application/x-xz' and \n'suffix' => '.txz' (BTW. shouldn't suffix in your case be '.tar.lzma'\nand not only '.lzma'?) and of course 'compressor' => ['xz']?\n\n\nBTW. I wonder if it would be good idea to add support for this format\ndirectly to git-archive... OTOH it would mean additional dependency.\n\n-- \nJakub Narebski\nGit User's Survey 2009: http://tinyurl.com/GitSurvey2009\n\n-- >8 --\nFrom: Mark Rada \nSubject: [PATCH] Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots\n\nSigned-off-by: Mark Rada \n---\n gitweb/gitweb.perl | 8 ++++++++\n 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)\n\ndiff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl\nindex 38492d0..e131ea4 100755\n--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl\n+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl\n@@ -184,6 +184,13 @@ our %known_snapshot_formats = (\n \t\t'format' => 'tar',\n \t\t'compressor' => ['bzip2']},\n \n+\t'txz' => {\n+\t\t'display' => 'tar.lzma',\n+\t\t'type' => 'application/x-lzma',\n+\t\t'suffix' => '.lzma',\n+\t\t'format' => 'tar',\n+\t\t'compressor' => ['lzma']},\n+\n \t'zip' => {\n \t\t'display' => 'zip',\n \t\t'type' => 'application/x-zip',\n@@ -196,6 +203,7 @@ our %known_snapshot_formats = (\n our %known_snapshot_format_aliases = (\n \t'gzip' => 'tgz',\n \t'bzip2' => 'tbz2',\n+\t'lzma' => 'txz',\n \n \t# backward compatibility: legacy gitweb config support\n \t'x-gzip' => undef, 'gz' => undef,\n-- \n1.6.4\n"},{"id":"119165","messageId":"alpine.DEB.1.00.0907301042300.7467@intel-tinevez-2-302","threadId":"20293","inReplyTo":"m3r5vy1siq.fsf@localhost.localdomain","subject":"Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots","fromName":"Johannes Schindelin","fromEmail":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","sentAt":"2009-07-30T08:43:53Z","receivedAt":"2009-07-30T08:43:53Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/127790?v=4"},"body":"Hi,\n\nOn Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:\n\n> BTW. I wonder if it would be good idea to add support for this format\n> directly to git-archive... OTOH it would mean additional dependency.\n\nI don't think it would be a good idea; we do not have bzip2 support \neither.\n\nThe only reason we have inbuilt gzip and zip support is because the format \nis so similar to Git's own compression.\n\nCiao,\nDscho\n"},{"id":"119280","messageId":"94a0d4530907310845k51dbafbfy8e240467113dfc16@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"20293","inReplyTo":"alpine.DEB.1.00.0907301042300.7467@intel-tinevez-2-302","subject":"Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots","fromName":"Felipe Contreras","fromEmail":"felipe.contreras@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-07-31T15:45:02Z","receivedAt":"2009-07-31T15:45:02Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"felipe.contreras@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8358?v=4"},"body":"On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Johannes\nSchindelin wrote:\n> Hi,\n>\n> On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:\n>\n>> BTW. I wonder if it would be good idea to add support for this format\n>> directly to git-archive...  OTOH it would mean additional dependency.\n>\n> I don't think it would be a good idea; we do not have bzip2 support\n> either.\n\nbzip2 has no advantages whatsoever. AFAIK xz is superior to other\nformats and it would be nice to see git make a technological stance\nencouraging xz.\n\n> The only reason we have inbuilt gzip and zip support is because the format\n> is so similar to Git's own compression.\n\nPersonally I don't see the point of having zip support.\n\n-- \nFelipe Contreras\n"},{"id":"119317","messageId":"81b0412b0908010043y51680392r69a0090aba520b13@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"20293","inReplyTo":"4A714F5C.70000@eaglescrag.net","subject":"Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots","fromName":"Alex Riesen","fromEmail":"raa.lkml@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-08-01T07:43:39Z","receivedAt":"2009-08-01T07:43:39Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"raa.lkml@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/324101?v=4"},"body":"On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 09:44, J.H. wrote:\n> Don't use 'lzma' the command, use 'xz' ( http://tukaani.org/xz/ ) as it uses\n\nThe host seems to be down.\n\n> the lzma2 format which is, by far, preferable to what 'lzma' outputs.  Same\n> compression (lzma) just different file format.\n\nAnd the whole project seems to be very young (listen on ohloh since 2007).\nAnd it is not in current stable distributions. Exotic thing.\n"},{"id":"119327","messageId":"alpine.DEB.1.00.0908011431060.8306@pacific.mpi-cbg.de","threadId":"20293","inReplyTo":"94a0d4530907310845k51dbafbfy8e240467113dfc16@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots","fromName":"Johannes Schindelin","fromEmail":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","sentAt":"2009-08-01T12:34:02Z","receivedAt":"2009-08-01T12:34:02Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/127790?v=4"},"body":"Hi,\n\nOn Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Felipe Contreras wrote:\n\n> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Johannes\n> Schindelin wrote:\n> > Hi,\n> >\n> > On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:\n> >\n> >> BTW. I wonder if it would be good idea to add support for this format\n> >> directly to git-archive...  OTOH it would mean additional dependency.\n> >\n> > I don't think it would be a good idea; we do not have bzip2 support\n> > either.\n> \n> bzip2 has no advantages whatsoever.\n\nBzzzzt. Wrong. Just because you cannot see them does not mean it has no \nadvantages.\n\n> AFAIK xz is superior to other formats and it would be nice to see git \n> make a technological stance encouraging xz.\n\nBzzzt. Wrong again. Git's mission in life is not to encourage one \ncompression over another.\n\nIf at all, the only compression Git actually does promote in a sense is \nzlib compression.\n\n> > The only reason we have inbuilt gzip and zip support is because the \n> > format is so similar to Git's own compression.\n> \n> Personally I don't see the point of having zip support.\n\nPersonally, I see the point of having zip support. It makes things easy \nfor Windows users. And it's an established format, much more so than \ntar.gz.\n\nCiao,\nDscho\n"},{"id":"119330","messageId":"94a0d4530908010610n31261414yc08060f3de9c115f@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"20293","inReplyTo":"alpine.DEB.1.00.0908011431060.8306@pacific.mpi-cbg.de","subject":"Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots","fromName":"Felipe Contreras","fromEmail":"felipe.contreras@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-08-01T13:10:58Z","receivedAt":"2009-08-01T13:10:58Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"felipe.contreras@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8358?v=4"},"body":"On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Johannes\nSchindelin wrote:\n> Hi,\n>\n> On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Felipe Contreras wrote:\n>\n>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Johannes\n>> Schindelin wrote:\n>> > Hi,\n>> >\n>> > On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:\n>> >\n>> >> BTW. I wonder if it would be good idea to add support for this format\n>> >> directly to git-archive...  OTOH it would mean additional dependency.\n>> >\n>> > I don't think it would be a good idea; we do not have bzip2 support\n>> > either.\n>>\n>> bzip2 has no advantages whatsoever.\n>\n> Bzzzzt.  Wrong.  Just because you cannot see them does not mean it has no\n> advantages.\n\nAll right, most the time you compress once, and multiple people\nuncompress multiple times. Therefore the path that should be optimized\nis the decompression, that leaves bzip2 out of the picture.\n\nYou can think of advantages of bzip2 in more esoteric cases where the\ncompression time is also important. I don't think that's the case\nhere. Actually it might be if gitweb is not caching the tarballs, but\nif that's the case I wouldn't say it's an advantage of bzip2.\n\n>> AFAIK xz is superior to other formats and it would be nice to see git\n>> make a technological stance encouraging xz.\n>\n> Bzzzt. Wrong again.  Git's mission in life is not to encourage one\n> compression over another.\n\nGit's mission in life is not promoting asciidot either, but it's doing\nthat unintentionally by merely using it.\n\n> If at all, the only compression Git actually does promote in a sense is\n> zlib compression.\n>\n>> > The only reason we have inbuilt gzip and zip support is because the\n>> > format is so similar to Git's own compression.\n>>\n>> Personally I don't see the point of having zip support.\n>\n> Personally, I see the point of having zip support.  It makes things easy\n> for Windows users.  And it's an established format, much more so than\n> tar.gz.\n\nWindows can't extract .tar.gz?\n\n-- \nFelipe Contreras\n"},{"id":"119332","messageId":"40aa078e0908010704k7581b656h1ed98a8852efa445@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"20293","inReplyTo":"94a0d4530908010610n31261414yc08060f3de9c115f@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots","fromName":"Erik Faye-Lund","fromEmail":"kusmabite@googlemail.com","sentAt":"2009-08-01T14:04:07Z","receivedAt":"2009-08-01T14:04:07Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"kusmabite@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/47073?v=4"},"body":"On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Felipe\nContreras wrote:\n> Windows can't extract .tar.gz?\n\nNot without installing 3. party software. Zip-support is built into\nthe operating system.\n\n-- \nErik \"kusma\" Faye-Lund\nkusmabite@gmail.com\n(+47) 986 59 656\n"},{"id":"119333","messageId":"20090801141304.GB10264@dpotapov.dyndns.org","threadId":"20293","inReplyTo":"94a0d4530907310845k51dbafbfy8e240467113dfc16@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots","fromName":"Dmitry Potapov","fromEmail":"dpotapov@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-08-01T14:13:04Z","receivedAt":"2009-08-01T14:13:04Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"dpotapov@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6568595?v=4"},"body":"On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 03:45:02PM +0000, Felipe Contreras wrote:\n> \n> bzip2 has no advantages whatsoever. AFAIK xz is superior to other\n> formats and it would be nice to see git make a technological stance\n> encouraging xz.\n\ngit is not about encouraging any compression. If you have not noticed,\ngit-archive produces tar and not tgz (though it would not be difficult\nto implement it, because we use zlib anyway). If you like xz and it is\ninstalled on your system, you can always compress tar with it:\n\ngit archive HEAD | xz > my-archive.tar.xz\n\nSo, I see no reason to have this compression coupled with git.\n\n> \n> > The only reason we have inbuilt gzip and zip support is because the format\n> > is so similar to Git's own compression.\n> \n> Personally I don't see the point of having zip support.\n\nzip is still a popular format on Windows. If git archive was not able to\nproduce then creating would require creating tar first, extracting it to\nsome temporary directory and then creating a zip file. It is not very\nefficient process and requires extra efforts, so because we use zlib\ncompression anyway, it makes perfect sense that we can create zip file\ndirectly.\n\nDmitry\n"},{"id":"119334","messageId":"20090801143403.GC10264@dpotapov.dyndns.org","threadId":"20293","inReplyTo":"81b0412b0908010043y51680392r69a0090aba520b13@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots","fromName":"Dmitry Potapov","fromEmail":"dpotapov@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-08-01T14:34:03Z","receivedAt":"2009-08-01T14:34:03Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"dpotapov@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6568595?v=4"},"body":"On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 09:43:39AM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:\n> \n> And the whole project seems to be very young (listen on ohloh since 2007).\n> And it is not in current stable distributions. Exotic thing.\n\nThe project seems to be it is developed together with Igor Pavlov, who\nis the author of 7-Zip (and now 7-Zip also supports LZMA2 and XZ\nformat). Accordingly to Igor Pavlov:\n\n LZMA2 provides the following advantages over LZMA:\n 1) Better compression ratio for data than can't be compressed.\n It can store such blocks of data in uncompressed form.\n Also it decompresses such data faster.\n 2) Better multithreading support. If you compress big file, LZMA2 can split\n that file to chunks and compress these chunks in multiple threads.\n\nClearly XZ is not very popular yet, but I would not call it as exotic.\nAt least, I expect it to be supported by future distributives.\n\n\nDmitry\n"},{"id":"119335","messageId":"b8bf37780908010738y305b67c7v3c4e8f2190bfdc93@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"20293","inReplyTo":"81b0412b0908010043y51680392r69a0090aba520b13@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots","fromName":"André Goddard Rosa","fromEmail":"andre.goddard@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-08-01T14:38:57Z","receivedAt":"2009-08-01T14:38:57Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"andre.goddard@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Alex Riesen wrote:\n> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 09:44, J.H. wrote:\n>> Don't use 'lzma' the command, use 'xz' ( http://tukaani.org/xz/ ) as it uses\n>\n> The host seems to be down.\n>\n\nYou can clone it here: git://ctrl.tukaani.org/xz.git\n\nBest regards,\nAndre\n"},{"id":"119336","messageId":"87tz0rinrv.fsf@meyering.net","threadId":"20293","inReplyTo":"81b0412b0908010043y51680392r69a0090aba520b13@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots","fromName":"Jim Meyering","fromEmail":"jim@meyering.net","sentAt":"2009-08-01T14:58:44Z","receivedAt":"2009-08-01T14:58:44Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"jim@meyering.net","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/710630?v=4"},"body":"Alex Riesen wrote:\n> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 09:44, J.H. wrote:\n>> Don't use 'lzma' the command, use 'xz' ( http://tukaani.org/xz/ ) as it uses\n>\n> The host seems to be down.\n>\n>> the lzma2 format which is, by far, preferable to what 'lzma' outputs.  Same\n>> compression (lzma) just different file format.\n>\n> And the whole project seems to be very young (listen on ohloh since 2007).\n> And it is not in current stable distributions. Exotic thing.\n\nXZ is young, but worthy, imho.\nIt was added to Fedora 11 in the last few days.\n"},{"id":"119344","messageId":"CC0DDAD1-D61F-465F-9533-95A101C61522@uwaterloo.ca","threadId":"20293","inReplyTo":"40aa078e0908010704k7581b656h1ed98a8852efa445@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots","fromName":"Mark A Rada","fromEmail":"marada@uwaterloo.ca","sentAt":"2009-08-01T16:07:56Z","receivedAt":"2009-08-01T16:07:56Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"marada@uwaterloo.ca","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/38430?v=4"},"body":"On 1-Aug-09, at 10:04 AM, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:\n\n> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Felipe\n> Contreras wrote:\n>> Windows can't extract .tar.gz?\n>\n> Not without installing 3. party software. Zip-support is built into\n> the operating system.\n>\n> -- \n> Erik \"kusma\" Faye-Lund\n> kusmabite@gmail.com\n> (+47) 986 59 656\n> --\n> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line \"unsubscribe git\" in\n> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org\n> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html\n\nFWIW, Windows doesn't seem to come with a whole lot, and you need\n3rd party software for a number of things, BUT that is also one of the\nprimary reasons that I need to be able to quickly get snapshots from\nmy Git repositories at home, and using zip format is convenient if I am\nin an extremely restrictive environment and cannot get a smaller XZ\ncompressed snapshot :).\n\n\n--\nMark A Rada (ferrous26)\nmarada@uwaterloo.ca\n"},{"id":"119353","messageId":"81b0412b0908011151p7206226fi8bea97c7b2c5f876@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"20293","inReplyTo":"87tz0rinrv.fsf@meyering.net","subject":"Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots","fromName":"Alex Riesen","fromEmail":"raa.lkml@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-08-01T18:51:35Z","receivedAt":"2009-08-01T18:51:35Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"raa.lkml@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/324101?v=4"},"body":"On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 16:58, Jim Meyering wrote:\n> Alex Riesen wrote:\n>> And it is not in current stable distributions. Exotic thing.\n>\n> XZ is young, but worthy, imho.\n> It was added to Fedora 11 in the last few days.\n\nWell, then maybe we should do by its good example and\nsupport xz. In addition to .lzma, .7z, .cpio, etc.\n"},{"id":"119357","messageId":"40aa078e0908011439q78a4cdefqa0b05955cc6a5fde@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"20293","inReplyTo":"CC0DDAD1-D61F-465F-9533-95A101C61522@uwaterloo.ca","subject":"Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots","fromName":"Erik Faye-Lund","fromEmail":"kusmabite@googlemail.com","sentAt":"2009-08-01T21:39:24Z","receivedAt":"2009-08-01T21:39:24Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"kusmabite@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/47073?v=4"},"body":"On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Mark A Rada wrote:\n> FWIW, Windows doesn't seem to come with a whole lot, and you need\n> 3rd party software for a number of things\n\nTell that to the US Department of Justice ;)\n\n-- \nErik \"kusma\" Faye-Lund\nkusmabite@gmail.com\n(+47) 986 59 656\n"}]}