Re: Dar compression of .git/objects

You can use the -Z option as many times as you want. So just use -Z .got
and you're sorted.

Richard.

On Mon, 16 Dec 2019, 12:10 C, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Someone help? What should I do?
>
> Cheers,
> /C
>
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 11:16 AM C <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've just started using `dar` and I ABSOLUTELY love it. I've been looking
>> for a comprehensive backup program and `dar` does so exactly 100% what I
>> want in a way that feels wonderful.
>>
>> On to my situation: I used `dar` with `-z9` to compress my projects
>> folders. When I viewed the archive (using `dar -l`) it showed me that some
>> files were worse compressed (`[Worse]`). These were all files in the
>> `.git/objects/...` folders.
>>
>> So it seems that compression does not work well for `.git` objects. But I
>> cannot figure out how to exclude them from compression. When I read the
>> documentation for `-Z` (exclude compression) I see it applies to file names
>> only but `.git` objects are not having similar file names so how should I
>> exclude them?
>>
>> Hope someone can help. And thanks to everyone who has contributed to
>> creating this wonderful program.
>> /C
>>
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