[MPlayer-cvslog] CVS: main/libmpdemux ebml.c,1.4,1.5

[Ivan Kalvachev]

On 7/28/05, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 08:09:12PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 27 July 2005 at 18:44, Jan Knutar wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 27 July 2005 07:19, Rich Felker wrote:
> > >
> > > > Definitely use rsync. Much better.
> > >
> > > How well can you rsync gzip/bzip2 compressed stuff though?
> >
> > Yes. rsync can do binary diffs effectively.
> 
> Yes and no. It can, but not if the while stream changes because of
> stream compression. rsync has special support for gzip for this
> reason, but probably not bzip2. Anyway why are we asking about
> compressed files? The uncompressed cvs tree should be synced, not
> tarred snapshots of it. Otherwise you defeat the whole purpose of
> using rsync.

I have no idea of the discution you are having here, but I just want
to remind you that rsync can use zlib to compress its data stream. -z
flag i think.
So it is quite efficent to rsync an text files.