Re: Importing from tarballs; add, rm, update-index?

From: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 12, 2007, 14:40 UTC
Message-ID: <118833cc0701120640o3cae8c14t5b5ba6ee6f022b53@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <6efbd9b70701120541n5dc4d0e1va50ae96543d8c80@mail.gmail.com>

I did this with a large pile of tarballs, see

    http://blogs.gnome.org/view/mortenw/2007/01/07/0

for the script.

Bottom line: git is very, very good at compressing a pile of related tarballs. In fact, about 10x better than gzip.

(Not really surprising, of course.)

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