Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?

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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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