Re: Scripts to use "bundles" for moving data between repositories

Mark Levedahl [off-list ref] writes:

That is any easy change. As the dominant content is an already
compressed pack file, is tar sufficient or should it be a gzip or bzip
tar?

Plain vanilla would do.  Have you noticed how well they deflate
with your implementation that uses zip?

Also we _might_ want to uuencode (or base85) so that you can
even e-mail a bundle easily.

I am 75% kidding ;-).

Junio C Hamano wrote:

Also we _might_ want to uuencode (or base85) so that you can
even e-mail a bundle easily.

I am 75% kidding ;-).
  

Wouldn't such encoding more logically be a part of whatever is used for 
the transport? My experience (other than emailing patches to the git 
list :-[ ) in this area is that encode / decode of attachments is 
handled transparently by email clients. My email programs (including 
command line scripts) all know how to mime encode / decode arbitrary 
attachments, so I at least would gain nothing by such encoding.

Mark