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On Wed, 16 May 2012 21:07:17 +0200 "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...> wrote: > Why is exherbo_repositories.tar.bz2 not a git repository? Because it's auto-generated and the history isn't very useful. -- -- Ciaran McCreesh
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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2012 21:07:17 +0200 > "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...> > wrote: >> Why is exherbo_repositories.tar.bz2 not a git repository? > > Because it's auto-generated and the history isn't very useful. Sure, but the checksumming may well be, and it would likely also result in smaller fetches.
On Wed, 16 May 2012 14:34:50 -0700 Alex Elsayed <eternaleye+usenet@...> wrote: > and it would likely also result in smaller fetches. ORLY? -- -- Ciaran McCreesh
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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2012 14:34:50 -0700 > Alex Elsayed <eternaleye+usenet@...> > wrote: >> and it would likely also result in smaller fetches. > > ORLY? > If the repositories don't change too much and the entries don't get reordered betwen runs, delta compression should reduce the size considerably.
Alex Elsayed wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> On Wed, 16 May 2012 14:34:50 -0700 >> Alex Elsayed <eternaleye+usenet@...> >> wrote: >>> and it would likely also result in smaller fetches. >> >> ORLY? >> > > If the repositories don't change too much and the entries don't get > reordered betwen runs, delta compression should reduce the size > considerably. This could certainly be improved further if summaries and versions were on different lines in the unavailable format, since the summaries change much less frequently.
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