Re: Other compression?, was Re: [PATCH] Add --no-reuse-delta option to git-gc

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: May 9, 2007, 11:35 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705091333570.4167@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <46418E24.9020309@midwinter.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 9 May 2007, Steven Grimm wrote:

> On that note, has any thought been given to looking at other compression
> algorithms?

I think you could do that. But you would lose compatibility with all existing Git clients. IOW nobody could pull from you.

Ciao, Dscho

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