[Development] Decrease amounth of delivered src packages

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Thu Feb 16 16:51:38 CET 2017


On quinta-feira, 16 de fevereiro de 2017 07:06:51 PST Kevin Kofler wrote:
> It was found that in practice, requesting the same tag from GitHub multiple
> times gives byte-identical tar.gz output. (Unfortunately, GitHub cannot
> deliver better compressions.) Of course this might break if they upgrade
> their gzip, but nothing is perfect.

Right, but my point is that you can get the same uncompressed stream by 
running it archive in anyone's machine.

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