On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Johannes Schindelin<Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote: > >> BTW. I wonder if it would be good idea to add support for this format >> directly to git-archive... OTOH it would mean additional dependency. > > I don't think it would be a good idea; we do not have bzip2 support > either. bzip2 has no advantages whatsoever. AFAIK xz is superior to other formats and it would be nice to see git make a technological stance encouraging xz. > The only reason we have inbuilt gzip and zip support is because the format > is so similar to Git's own compression. Personally I don't see the point of having zip support. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html