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Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:20:40 -0400 From: Phillip Susi <psusi@....rr.com> To: David Lang <dlang@...italinsight.com> CC: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, Drew Scott Daniels <ddaniels@...lumni.mb.ca>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs? It sounded like you were talking about a modified pack file that did NOT contain everything you need to get the current source. You said it would have no history and use aggressive delta compression to achieve a smaller size than a full tarball. If the pack contains the full previous version and the delta to the head version, then it will be larger than the tar, not smaller. David Lang wrote: > On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Phillip Susi wrote: > >> David Lang wrote: >>> I just had what's probably a silly thought. >>> >>> as an alturnative to useing tar, what about useing a git pack? >>> >>> create a git archive with no history, just the current files, and >>> then pack it with agressive delta options. >>> >> >> Isn't that what a patch.gz is? Diff generates the deltas and then >> they are compressed. Can't get much simpler or better than that. > > not quite, a git pack includes everythign you need to get the full > source, a patch.gz requires that you have the prior version of the > source to start with. > > David Lang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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