Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots

Hi,

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Mark A Rada wrote:

I thought I would submit this little patch I made to my gitweb. I am on 
a relatively slow connection, and so LZMA compression time is less of a 
concern than bandwidth---I'm guessing that I am not the only person who 
suffers from slow internet connection syndrome.

That's great!

FWIW on this mailing list, we prefer to have patches inlined so that it is 
easier for reviewers to comment (it is almost impossible to get any patch 
into git.git without review, and because reviewing is such an ungratifying 
job you want to make it easier).

The patch is pretty straight-forward, but I'd love to see some information 
in the commit message about:

- performance numbers on the _server_ (i.e. how does the RAM and CPU load 
  compare to, say, bzip2?)

- how to disable/enable it (yes, it's in the documentation, but you can 
  make things easier still)

- whether it is turned on by default, and why.

Thanks,
Dscho