Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932114AbWIUXi0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:38:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932118AbWIUXiZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:38:25 -0400 Received: from bayc1-pasmtp07.bayc1.hotmail.com ([65.54.191.167]:63 "EHLO BAYC1-PASMTP07.CEZ.ICE") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932114AbWIUXiZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:38:25 -0400 Message-ID: X-Originating-IP: [65.94.249.130] X-Originating-Email: [seanlkml@sympatico.ca] Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:38:23 -0400 From: Sean To: David Lang Cc: Dave Jones , Dax Kelson , Lennart Sorensen , Linux kernel , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs? Message-Id: <20060921193823.ec49d446.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> In-Reply-To: References: <20060921175717.272c58ee.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> <20060921222443.GO26683@redhat.com> <20060921224051.GS26683@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.10.3; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Sep 2006 23:43:43.0734 (UTC) FILETIME=[C610E160:01C6DDD7] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 851 Lines: 18 On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:34:53 -0700 (PDT) David Lang wrote: > I was responding to the (apparent) argument that with git and ketchup people > should not ever be downloading tarballs, so something that cuts the size of a > tarball in half doesn't make any difference. Sure there are some cases where tarballs are more appropriate, but with git and maybe some of the other tools it should really be the minority situation. I wonder how many people just use tarballs out of inertia. All said though saving a few bytes of bandwidth by making the tarballs smaller can't hurt. Sean - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/