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From: | Paolo Bonzini |
Subject: | Re: distribute xz-compressed tarballs, too? |
Date: | Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:50:14 +0200 |
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On 06/06/2010 08:48 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
Thanks for pointing out this compressor. I will use it to compress the archive used by the 'autopoint' program. Gettext has options to use 'cvs' and 'git' in order to store the multiple versions in a space saving way. I'm surprised to see that the use of 'xz', even without 'cvs' or 'git', produces a smaller archive than 'cvs' or 'git' with 'gzip':
xz uses a very large "window", so it gets more or less the same benefit as CVS for the purpose of autopoint.
Paolo
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