[darcs-devel] a measurement of using 7z instead of gz to compress patches

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

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?