From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cgit at cryptocrack.de (Lukas Fleischer) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 09:01:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] git: use xz compressed archive for download In-Reply-To: References: <1408344244-14923-1-git-send-email-list@eworm.de> Message-ID: <20141224080110.15117.35731@typhoon.lan> On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 at 03:14:46, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Merged a variant of this. > > xz is less commonly deployed, but I think modernization is a good thing in > this regard, so rolling with it. > I don't think this is a good idea (I raised concerns weeks ago but forgot to Cc the mailing list). Several tar(1) implementations don't support the -J switch. We could add some hackery and use the xz(1) command line utility instead but I am not sure whether the savings of ~30% justify portability hacks :) Either way, this should be reverted or replaced by something portable. Regards and happy holidays, Lukas