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File archiver using git

From
Matt McCutchen <hashproduct@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 27, 2006, 13:10 UTC
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<3bbc18d20608270610o102968d2kd340d40843262dc5@mail.gmail.com>
Dear git people,

You might like the two attached scripts that I wrote around git to pack file trees containing lots of redundancy into very small packages. For example, if I have ten slightly different versions of a piece of software because I didn't use version control, I can use gitar to compress them together.

Matt
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