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.
since git uses compression on the result anyway it's unlikly to be much
worse then a tarball, and since it can use deltas across files it may
even be better (potentially enough better to cover the cost of
downloading the git binaries)
this would be especially effective once git adds a 'shallow clone'
capability to then take the snapshot pack and extend it (either forward
or backward as requested by the user), but may be worth doing even
without this.
thoughts?
David Lang
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