Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots

Hi,

On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Felipe Contreras wrote:

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

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Hi,

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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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.

Bzzzzt.  Wrong.  Just because you cannot see them does not mean it has no 
advantages.

AFAIK xz is superior to other formats and it would be nice to see git 
make a technological stance encouraging xz.

Bzzzt. Wrong again.  Git's mission in life is not to encourage one 
compression over another.

If at all, the only compression Git actually does promote in a sense is 
zlib compression.

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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.

Personally, I see the point of having zip support.  It makes things easy 
for Windows users.  And it's an established format, much more so than 
tar.gz.

Ciao,
Dscho