From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:45:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots
Message-ID: <94a0d4530907310845k51dbafbfy8e240467113dfc16@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0907301042300.7467@intel-tinevez-2-302>

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Johannes
Schindelin<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> 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