[darcs-devel] a measurement of using 7z instead of gz to compress patches
Stephen J. Turnbull
stephen at xemacs.org
Thu Jan 17 01:02:40 UTC 2008
zooko writes:
> In short, it probably isn't worth it, unless the new repository
> formats (which I haven't looked at) tend to bundle more patches
> together into one file for the compression tool to find redundancy in:
Better to use zip format than tar, as zip has an index (that's why
it's used by jar files and Python eggs, IIRC). Doesn't 7zip have a
full archive mode like zip?
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