2010/10/9 Lele Gaifax <l...@nautilus.homeip.net>: > On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 12:58:00 +0000 > Alexey Levan <b...@darcs.net> wrote: > >> To make lazy getting of optimized repositories simpler, 'optimize >> --http' creates two tarballs: basic.tar.gz, with inventory and >> pristine files, and patches.tar.gz, which contains patches. > > Aren't patches already gzipped, /always/? If so, maybe there could be > a gain (both in processing time and eventually size) in downloading a > plain patches.tar?
To reduce size, during optimisation each patch is decompressed, then archived into the tarball and the resulting archive is compressed again. For patches packed this way, the size of tarball is smaller than gzipped patches in a plain tar. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
