Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc7

[John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>]

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>> But we've certainly fixed a few things, and it's been a week, so here's
>> -rc7. I wish I could say that it's the last -rc, but I strongly doubt
>> that, and we'll almost certainly have at least one more.
>
> Oh, and I forgot to ask one thing I had intended to ask in the release
> notes..
>
> Do people really care about the old-fashioned tar.gz and patch.gz files?
> I've always uploaded the tar-files and patches compressed with gzip,
> because that's the "traditional" way, and then we have a script that also
> re-compresses things as 'bz2' because it compresses better and many people
> are bandwidth-limited and much prefer the better compression.
>
> Of course, if you really care about bandwidth, you're better off just
> fetching the git trees instead, but the question for non-git users is:
>
>   Would it be ok to _only_ have the 'bz2' patches and tar-balls?
>
> Having two copies of every large file seems silly, if nobody really
> requires the traditional .gz format..
>
>                Linus

I mostly just use git these days, but when I do fetch something, it's
always .bz2, I haven't fetched tar.gz in quite some time. Don't know
if the embedded folks need tar.gz.