From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
Mark A Rada <marada@uwaterloo.ca>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:45:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <94a0d4530907310845k51dbafbfy8e240467113dfc16@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0907301042300.7467@intel-tinevez-2-302>
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Johannes
Schindelin<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> 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.
bzip2 has no advantages whatsoever. AFAIK xz is superior to other
formats and it would be nice to see git make a technological stance
encouraging xz.
> The only reason we have inbuilt gzip and zip support is because the format
> is so similar to Git's own compression.
Personally I don't see the point of having zip support.
--
Felipe Contreras
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-31 15:45 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.
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 [this message]
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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=94a0d4530907310845k51dbafbfy8e240467113dfc16@mail.gmail.com \
--to=felipe.contreras@gmail.com \
--cc=Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=jnareb@gmail.com \
--cc=marada@uwaterloo.ca \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).