From: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:18:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] upload-archive: use start_command instead of fork
Message-ID: <4E84D29F.6020305@lsrfire.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <CABPQNSba+nQ+AOmVEVNWhJi2e65EiuhRxfOWZsW03Pkc6zXdHg@mail.gmail.com>

Am 29.09.2011 21:54, schrieb Erik Faye-Lund:
> So the way forward is probably to just change to a self-compiled gzip
> in msysGit (and Git for Windows by proxy).
> 
> I'll post the patch to build a native-gzip to the msysGit mailing list
> (I only got 1.2.4 to compile on Windows, but it's the same version as
> we have in msysGit so it's probably fine), and post the latest version
> of this series soon...

Good to hear that.

By the way, are you aware of http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ (includes
a native gzip 1.2.4 binary)?

Or http://zlib.net/pigz/ (parallel gzip, no binaries)?

René