Cheap updates
Bert Freudenberg
bert at isgnw.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De
Fri Jun 2 08:51:37 UTC 2000
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
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