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Re: A shortcoming of the git repo format

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C. Scott Ananian <cscott@cscott.net>
Date
Apr 27, 2005, 15:00 UTC
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On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Additionally, there is the question of the handling of strings that may 
> contain \n or even \0 (which may be necessary for some applications).

While we're at it, I'll just mention that '\0' is a rather bad delimiter for zlib-compressed files; it usually ends up enlarging the file by three or more bytes compared to using any whitespace character. The reason is obvious: \0 isn't actually used anywhere else in the compressed contents, so it tends to pollute zlib's dictionary.

It's probably too late to do anything about this, but hey.
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  2. C. Scott AnanianApr 27, 2005
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  5. Dave JonesApr 27, 2005
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  7. Jon SeymourApr 27, 2005
  8. Linus TorvaldsApr 27, 2005
  9. Petr BaudisApr 27, 2005
  10. Linus TorvaldsApr 27, 2005
  11. The git repo formatBrian O'Mahoney, Apr 27, 2005
  12. H. Peter AnvinApr 27, 2005
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  14. H. Peter AnvinApr 27, 2005
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