From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: full kernel history, in patchset format Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 12:19:22 -0700 Message-ID: <7v8y3i7cn9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <20050416131528.GB19908@elte.hu> <7vmzry7ev5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <42615B00.6090106@timesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Apr 16 21:16:16 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DMsm1-0006vZ-E6 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 21:16:09 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262737AbVDPTTu (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Apr 2005 15:19:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262738AbVDPTTu (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Apr 2005 15:19:50 -0400 Received: from fed1rmmtao02.cox.net ([68.230.241.37]:58609 "EHLO fed1rmmtao02.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262737AbVDPTTt (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Apr 2005 15:19:49 -0400 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.4.60.172]) by fed1rmmtao02.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with ESMTP id <20050416191924.OKVL4787.fed1rmmtao02.cox.net@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 15:19:24 -0400 To: Mike Taht In-Reply-To: <42615B00.6090106@timesys.com> (Mike Taht's message of "Sat, 16 Apr 2005 11:35:44 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "MT" == Mike Taht writes: MT> alternatively, "git-archive-torrent" to create a list of files for a MT> bittorrent feed.... That is certainly good for establishing the baseline, but you still need to leverage the inherent delta-compressibility between related blobs/trees by also doing something like what I described as "diff package", don't you?