From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:20:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] upload-archive: use start_command instead of fork
Message-ID: <CABPQNSZaEdBMRq9wMbGV1E=EzZgpcKhT=_JW-3hSzF4GqviHHQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4E84D29F.6020305@lsrfire.ath.cx>

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:18 PM, René Scharfe
<rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> wrote:
> Am 29.09.2011 21:54, schrieb Erik Faye-Lund:
>> So the way forward is probably to just change to a self-compiled gzip
>> in msysGit (and Git for Windows by proxy).
>>
>> I'll post the patch to build a native-gzip to the msysGit mailing list
>> (I only got 1.2.4 to compile on Windows, but it's the same version as
>> we have in msysGit so it's probably fine), and post the latest version
>> of this series soon...
>
> Good to hear that.
>
> By the way, are you aware of http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ (includes
> a native gzip 1.2.4 binary)?

Yes, but we prefer to build our binaries ourselves in the msysGit project.

> Or http://zlib.net/pigz/ (parallel gzip, no binaries)?

I'm aware of pigz, but changing the gzip implementation isn't really
the scope of this change IMO.