compressed archives

[Brad Hards]

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On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 18:12, Christopher Vance wrote:
> If rsync were to do its file stat and content comparisons on the
> uncompressed copy of both archives, might this not result in less
> network traffic (sending only the small changes) than just looking at
> the compressed copies?  (Yes, I realize that there are the additional
> (non-network) expenses of decompressing at both ends, and probably
> recompressing at the destination.)
There is a better way:
http://pserver.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/rsync/patches/gzip-rsyncable.diff?sortby=rev

Brad
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