On Fri, 2 Jun 2000 JArchibald at aol.com wrote:

> => 6/2/00 4:35:04 AM, bert at isgnw.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De =>
> << jla: << Now, if only the updates were compressed..... 
>         and available in archival form (i.e., .zip, .tar.gz, .tgz, .sit, 
> etc.) >>
> 
> What would this be good for? I agree gzipping changesets would be a Good
> Thing but they're still incremental updates. >>
> 
> The question arises when one wishes to obtain all (or some large collection 
> of) the ChangeSets to form a local archive. If you simply try to download the 
> entire collection of ChangeSets (something I have done a few times), it takes 
> forever (for us T1-challenged types).

But if each changeset was gzipped, the archive wouldn't be any smaller
than fetching each one separately. 

[Except for the .tar.gz case which would yield a better compression
because all files are first concatenated (tar) and then gzipped]

-- Bert