From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:42:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] archive: provide builtin .tar.gz filter
Message-ID: <7vpqmdhb3q.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110616182149.GB12689@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@github.com> writes:

> Also, since it's easy via the external helper route, should there be any
> other builtin formats? Bzip2? It's not that big a deal for a big hosting
> site like kernel.org to stick it in their configuration, but I wonder if
> normal users would find it useful.

I know k.org statically prepares *.bz2 for any *.gz in /pub/software/
hierarchy, but isn't bzip2 significantly more expensive (like taking ten
times as much memory or four times as much CPI time to squeeze the last
extra 15% out), making it unsuitable for one-shot online use?