Compression in tar archive for offline modus?

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Compression in tar archive for offline modus? #41

Closed derkd closed 10 years ago

derkd commented 10 years ago

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

adamdubiel commented 10 years ago

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

derkd commented 10 years ago

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 :).

derkd commented 10 years ago

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

adamdubiel commented 10 years ago

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.