Re: git-fetching from a big repository is slow

Shawn Pearce [off-list ref] wrote:

[...]

And yet I get good delta compression on a number of ZIP formatted
files which don't get good additional zlib compression (<3%).

.zip is something like a tar of the compressed files, if the files inside
the archive don't change, the deltas will be small.
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