Am 13.04.2019 um 03:51 schrieb Jeff King: > On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 04:04:40PM -0700, Rohit Ashiwal via GitGitGadget wrote: > >> From: Rohit Ashiwal <rohit.ashiwal265@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> As we already link to the zlib library, we can perform the compression >> without even requiring gzip on the host machine. > > Very cool. It's nice to drop a dependency, and this should be a bit more > efficient, too. Getting rid of dependencies is good, and using zlib is the obvious way to generate .tgz files. Last time I tried something like that, a separate gzip process was faster, though -- at least on Linux [1]. How does this one fare? Doing compression in its own thread may be a good idea. René [1] http://public-inbox.org/git/4AAAC8CE.8020302@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/