From: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:12:31 GMT
Subject: Re: git-fetching from a big repository is slow
Message-ID: <200612142212.kBEMCVeu032626@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <spearce@spearce.org>

Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:

[...]

> And yet I get good delta compression on a number of ZIP formatted
> files which don't get good additional zlib compression (<3%).

.zip is something like a tar of the compressed files, if the files inside
the archive don't change, the deltas will be small.
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