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From: "J.H." <warthog19@eaglescrag.net>
To: Mark A Rada <marada@uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:44:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A714F5C.70000@eaglescrag.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E0C39B59-E2C5-4C28-9570-D33FEA2A44EB@uwaterloo.ca>

Mark A Rada wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I thought I would submit this little patch I made to my gitweb. I am on 
> a relatively slow
> connection, and so LZMA compression time is less of a  concern than 
> bandwidth---I'm
> guessing that I am not the only person who suffers from slow internet 
> connection
> syndrome.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mark A Rada (ferrous26)
> marada@uwaterloo.ca

Don't use 'lzma' the command, use 'xz' ( http://tukaani.org/xz/ ) as it 
uses the lzma2 format which is, by far, preferable to what 'lzma' 
outputs.  Same compression (lzma) just different file format.

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-30  8:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-30  5:48 Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots Mark A Rada
2009-07-30  7:44 ` J.H. [this message]
2009-08-01  7:43   ` Alex Riesen
2009-08-01 14:34     ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-08-01 14:38     ` André Goddard Rosa
2009-08-01 14:58     ` Jim Meyering
2009-08-01 18:51       ` Alex Riesen
2009-07-30  7:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-07-30  8:31 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-07-30  8:43   ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-07-31 15:45     ` Felipe Contreras
2009-08-01 12:34       ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-08-01 13:10         ` Felipe Contreras
2009-08-01 14:04           ` Erik Faye-Lund
2009-08-01 16:07             ` Mark A Rada
2009-08-01 21:39               ` Erik Faye-Lund
2009-08-01 14:13       ` Dmitry Potapov

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