Gzip needs to be configurable

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open-source binary diff, delta/differential compression tools, VCDIFF/RFC 3284 delta compression

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Gzip needs to be configurable #198

Open Magmatrix opened 9 years ago

Magmatrix commented 9 years ago

Hi, I usually use pigz which is much faster than ordinary gzip (it scales with the number of cores available). To do this i have to unpigz the files, run xdelta, and then pigz them again.

It would be really nice to be able to select which variant of gzip to use in xdelta.