Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?

[David Lang]

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
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