Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Johannes
Schindelin[off-list ref] wrote:

Hi,

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:

quoted

BTW. I wonder if it would be good idea to add support for this format
directly to git-archive...  OTOH it would mean additional dependency.

I don't think it would be a good idea; we do not have bzip2 support
either.

bzip2 has no advantages whatsoever. AFAIK xz is superior to other
formats and it would be nice to see git make a technological stance
encouraging xz.

The only reason we have inbuilt gzip and zip support is because the format
is so similar to Git's own compression.

Personally I don't see the point of having zip support.

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Felipe Contreras