On 06/14/2011 11:18 AM, Jeff King wrote: > git-archive already supports the creation of tar files. For > local cases, one can simply pipe the output to gzip, and > having git-archive do the gzip is a minor convenience. > > However, when running git-archive against a remote site, > having the remote side do the compression can save > considerable bandwidth. Service providers could always wrap > git-archive to provide that functionality, but this makes it > much simpler. > > Creating gzipped archives is of course more expensive than > regular tar archives; however, the amount of work should be > comparable to that of creating a zip file, which is already > possible. So there should be no new security implications > with respect to creating load on a remote server. Would it make sense to make this a little more generic and support bz2 and xz as well? - John 'Warthog9' Hawley -- 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