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Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots

From
Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date
Aug 1, 2009, 14:58 UTC
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Alex Riesen wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 09:44, J.H.<warthog19@eaglescrag.net> wrote:
>> Don't use 'lzma' the command, use 'xz' ( http://tukaani.org/xz/ ) as it uses
>
> The host seems to be down.
>
>> the lzma2 format which is, by far, preferable to what 'lzma' outputs.  Same
>> compression (lzma) just different file format.
>
> And the whole project seems to be very young (listen on ohloh since 2007).
> And it is not in current stable distributions. Exotic thing.

XZ is young, but worthy, imho. It was added to Fedora 11 in the last few days.

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  1. Mark A RadaJul 30, 2009
  2. J.H.Jul 30, 2009
  3. Alex RiesenAug 1, 2009
  4. Dmitry PotapovAug 1, 2009
  5. André Goddard RosaAug 1, 2009
  6. Jim MeyeringAug 1, 2009
  7. Alex RiesenAug 1, 2009
  8. Johannes SchindelinJul 30, 2009
  9. Jakub NarebskiJul 30, 2009
  10. Johannes SchindelinJul 30, 2009
  11. Felipe ContrerasJul 31, 2009
  12. Johannes SchindelinAug 1, 2009
  13. Felipe ContrerasAug 1, 2009
  14. Erik Faye-LundAug 1, 2009
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  16. Erik Faye-LundAug 1, 2009
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