On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 15:50, Marcus Meissner <meiss...@suse.de> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 02:42:29PM +0100, Ken Sharp wrote: >> >> >> On 19/10/11 13:43, Frédéric Delanoy wrote: >> >On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 14:08, Joel Holdsworth<j...@airwebreathe.org.uk> >> >wrote: >> >>Alternatively, have you considered doing a .tar.gz of every build snapshot, >> >>and placing that on a server somewhere? >> >> >> >>e.g. a folder full of 36def4af0ca85a1d0e66b5207056775bcb3b09ff.tar.gz >> >>files? >> > >> >tar.xz would compress better >> >> tar.lzma? > > Having tars of all builds would be way larger I guess. GIT compresses and > shares objects that are the same. > > Ciao, Marcus
You're talking about using a git tree just to store binaries for each committed patch, I suppose? But then you would have to download the whole repository (which can be quite big) to get compression benefits, right?
