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Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots

From
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 31, 2009, 15:45 UTC
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Johannes Schindelin<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>
>> BTW. I wonder if it would be good idea to add support for this format
>> directly to git-archive...  OTOH it would mean additional dependency.
>
> I don't think it would be a good idea; we do not have bzip2 support
> either.

bzip2 has no advantages whatsoever. AFAIK xz is superior to other formats and it would be nice to see git make a technological stance encouraging xz.

> The only reason we have inbuilt gzip and zip support is because the format
> is so similar to Git's own compression.
Personally I don't see the point of having zip support.
-- 
Felipe Contreras
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Message 11 of 17 in “Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots”
  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
  15. Mark A RadaAug 1, 2009
  16. Erik Faye-LundAug 1, 2009
  17. Dmitry PotapovAug 1, 2009

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