Regression testing breakthrough

[Frédéric Delanoy]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 15:50, Marcus Meissner <meissner at suse.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 02:42:29PM +0100, Ken Sharp wrote:
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>> On 19/10/11 13:43, Frédéric Delanoy wrote:
>> >On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 14:08, Joel Holdsworth<joel at airwebreathe.org.uk>  wrote:
>> >>Alternatively, have you considered doing a .tar.gz of every build snapshot,
>> >>and placing that on a server somewhere?
>> >>
>> >>e.g. a folder full of 36def4af0ca85a1d0e66b5207056775bcb3b09ff.tar.gz files?
>> >
>> >tar.xz would compress better
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>> tar.lzma?
>
> Having tars of all builds would be way larger I guess. GIT compresses and
> shares objects that are the same.
>
> Ciao, Marcus

You're talking about using a git tree just to store binaries for each
committed patch, I suppose?
But then you would have to download the whole repository (which can be
quite big) to get compression benefits, right?