Regression testing breakthrough

[Marcus Meissner]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 04:18:50PM +0200, Frédéric Delanoy wrote:
> 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:
> >>
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >> 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?

True, yes.

Ciao, Marcus