Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?

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On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:42:50 -0400
Lennart Sorensen <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 02:32:57PM -0600, Dax Kelson wrote:
> > Today as I was watching the linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2 slowly download I
> > thought it would be nice if it could be made smaller.
[...]
> But after you download it once, you can just get the diff next time.
> How is the decompression time on 7zip versus bzip2 and gzip?

Not to mention that by using Git it will take care of all that for you.
Downloading only the updates with no need for you to manually apply diffs
etc..

Sean
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