linux-kernel - Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?

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Date:	Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:49:38 -0400
From:	Sean <seanlkml@...patico.ca>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:	David Lang <dlang@...italinsight.com>,
	Phillip Susi <psusi@....rr.com>,
	Drew Scott Daniels <ddaniels@...lumni.mb.ca>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 22:35:27 +0200
Willy Tarreau <w@....eu> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 01:12:55PM -0700, David Lang wrote:
> > no, I was suggesting a pack file that contained _only_ the head version.
> > 
> > within the pack file it would delta against other files in the pack (how 
> > many copies of the GPLv2 text exist across all files for example)
> > 
> > however Willy did a test and found that the resulting pack was 
> > significantly larger then a .tgz. I don't know what options he used, so 
> > while there's some chance that being more agressive in looking for deltas 
> > would result in an improvement, the difference to make up is fairly 
> > significant.
> 
> no options at all, so there may be room for improvement. Also, on my
> notebook, I have hardlinked all my linux directories so that each
> content only appears once. I don't have the numbers right here, but
> I remember that it was really useful to merge lots of different versions,
> but that the net gain within one given tree was really minor, as there
> are not that many identical files in one tree.

Hey Willy,

I don't really understand the objective here, but you may want to double
check your procedure, the entire 2.4 history only takes a single 41M pack
in Git for me.

Sean
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