Hi, On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Felipe Contreras wrote: > 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. Bzzzzt. Wrong. Just because you cannot see them does not mean it has no advantages. > AFAIK xz is superior to other formats and it would be nice to see git > make a technological stance encouraging xz. Bzzzt. Wrong again. Git's mission in life is not to encourage one compression over another. If at all, the only compression Git actually does promote in a sense is zlib compression. > > 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. Personally, I see the point of having zip support. It makes things easy for Windows users. And it's an established format, much more so than tar.gz. Ciao, Dscho