From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Other compression?, was Re: [PATCH] Add --no-reuse-delta option to git-gc Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 13:35:06 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <7vr6ps3oyk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <11786309073709-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <11786309072612-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <11786309071033-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <7v3b26xvjo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <46418E24.9020309@midwinter.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Git Mailing List To: Steven Grimm X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 09 13:35:17 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HlkRu-0003gJ-Hm for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 09 May 2007 13:35:14 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751652AbXEILfE (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 07:35:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751677AbXEILfE (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 07:35:04 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:51350 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751652AbXEILfC (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 07:35:02 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 09 May 2007 11:35:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp042) with SMTP; 09 May 2007 13:35:00 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19uZkAIE15ubmlZW6eIE/gP+1JRLw4q4zWejFPKTB wiF9+caDM8hXJC X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <46418E24.9020309@midwinter.com> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Wed, 9 May 2007, Steven Grimm wrote: > On that note, has any thought been given to looking at other compression > algorithms? I think you could do that. But you would lose compatibility with all existing Git clients. IOW nobody could pull from you. Ciao, Dscho