Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Support for snapshot
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- Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
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- Aug 18, 2006, 20:05 UTC
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Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com> wrote: > > This adds snapshort support in gitweb. To enable one need to > > set gitweb.snapshot = true in the config file. > > Could you use bzip2? It generates smaller files (better compression), > which is a good thing when downloading over a network.
bzip2 is much slower than gzip. Often just uncompressing .tar.bz2 takes more time than downloading bigger .tar.gz file. For small projects it doesn't matter which one you use.
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