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

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Feb 14, 2007, 18:00 UTC
Message-ID: <7vhctopqkw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <45D34D58.8050701@verizon.net>

Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net> writes:

> 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?

Plain vanilla would do. Have you noticed how well they deflate with your implementation that uses zip?

Also we _might_ want to uuencode (or base85) so that you can even e-mail a bundle easily.

I am 75% kidding ;-).

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