Compression in tar archive for offline modus?

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Compression in tar archive for offline modus?

derkd opened this issue 10 years ago · 4 comments

The tar archive can't be compressed now. Please add the possibility to use compression

Answer 1 · 2014-06-16T11:22:42.000Z

Can you add any reasons? git handles compression really nicely internally (don't know about svn).

Answer 2 · 2014-06-16T12:21:44.000Z

We use SVN and I don't know about compression. Our node_modules.tar is now 151MB. If we compress the tar it will be 42MB :).

Answer 3 · 2014-06-16T12:23:43.000Z

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5520335/does-subversion-include-compression
I think SVN uses compression so this is probably no issue...

Answer 4 · 2014-06-16T12:31:05.000Z

Exactly the link i wanted to post :) I know that this might seem odd not to compress it, but by only taring them we have an advantage of using internal svn/git mechanisms that probably can do better job with deltas when operating on tars instead of compressed archives.