Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Oct 2006 08:48:51 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Lang <> | Subject | Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs? |
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On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Phillip Susi wrote:
> David Lang wrote: >> I just had what's probably a silly thought. >> >> as an alturnative to useing tar, what about useing a git pack? >> >> create a git archive with no history, just the current files, and then pack >> it with agressive delta options. >> > > Isn't that what a patch.gz is? Diff generates the deltas and then they are > compressed. Can't get much simpler or better than that.
not quite, a git pack includes everythign you need to get the full source, a patch.gz requires that you have the prior version of the source to start with.
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