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Per the post, this was a change to git itself: https://github.com/git/git/commit/4f4be00d302bc52d0d9d5a3d4738bb525066c710 https://github.com/git/git/commit/4f4b

• fweimer 4y ago
  They could just produce tar output and compress that using system gzip. The “git archive” tool supports many output formats.
• forgotpwd16 4y ago
  What was the thought behind this change?
  • georgyo 4y ago
    If you read the commit message you would see that it is up drop a third party dependency.
    • forgotpwd16 4y ago
      Yeah, read that. Just don't understand, if git already had an internal gzip implementation, why wasn't it used since it was added?
      • ilyt 4y ago
        Because not everyone refactors whole codebase after adding one function that might be useful somewhere else. I'd imagine motivation for this change in particular is multiplatform use, not every platform just have gzip in path.