Re: [PATCH] Add --no-reuse-delta option to git-gc

Steven Grimm [off-list ref] writes:

-Steve (who suspects this is a "yes, we talked this over early in
git's history" question, but what the heck)

AFAICR, the answer is "heck, we have never bothered about such
low level implementation details as gzip has been good enough
for us.  If you feel so inclined, go wild."