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From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Subject: Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots
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Alex Riesen wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 09:44, J.H.<warthog19@eaglescrag.net> wrote:
>> Don't use 'lzma' the command, use 'xz' ( http://tukaani.org/xz/ ) as=
 it uses
>
> The host seems to be down.
>
>> the lzma2 format which is, by far, preferable to what 'lzma' outputs=
=2E =C2=A0Same
>> compression (lzma) just different file format.
>
> And the whole project seems to be very young (listen on ohloh since 2=
007).
> And it is not in current stable distributions. Exotic thing.

XZ is young, but worthy, imho.
It was added to Fedora 11 in the last few days.