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    SubjectRe: Kernel SCM saga..
    On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 22:45:18 -0700 (PDT)
    Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

    > Also, I don't want people editing repostitory files by hand. Sure, the
    > sha1 catches it, but still... I'd rather force the low-level ops to use
    > the proper helper routines. Which is why it's a raw zlib compressed blob,
    > not a gzipped file.

    I understand the arguments for compression, but I hate it for one
    simple reason: recovery is more difficult when you corrupt some
    file in your repository.

    It's happened to me more than once and I did lose data.

    Without compression, I might be able to recover if something
    causes a block of zeros to be written to the middle of some
    repository file. With compression, you pretty much just lose.
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