Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?

[Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>]

It sounded like you were talking about a modified pack file that did NOT 
contain everything you need to get the current source.  You said it 
would have no history and use aggressive delta compression to achieve a 
smaller size than a full tarball.  If the pack contains the full 
previous version and the delta to the head version, then it will be 
larger than the tar, not smaller.

David Lang wrote:
> 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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