Re: Scripts to use "bundles" for moving data between repositories

From: Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net>
Date: Feb 14, 2007, 17:56 UTC
Message-ID: <45D34D58.8050701@verizon.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vlkj0r7f0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> I think something like this is a good addition but I do not want
> us to require zip/unzip to use git.  I think saner alternative
> would be to use tar.
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That is any easy change. As the dominant content is an already compressed pack file, is tar sufficient or should it be a gzip or bzip tar?

Mark

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