From: Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:05:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Support for snapshot
Message-ID: <20060818230505.994b08b6.tihirvon@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060818195148.66411.qmail@web31807.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- "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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