From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:43:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0907301042300.7467@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <m3r5vy1siq.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

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.

The only reason we have inbuilt gzip and zip support is because the format 
is so similar to Git's own compression.

Ciao,
Dscho