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SubjectRe: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?
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.

> since git uses compression on the result anyway it's unlikly to be much
> worse then a tarball, and since it can use deltas across files it may
> even be better (potentially enough better to cover the cost of
> downloading the git binaries)
>
> this would be especially effective once git adds a 'shallow clone'
> capability to then take the snapshot pack and extend it (either forward
> or backward as requested by the user), but may be worth doing even
> without this.
>
> thoughts?
>
> David Lang

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