groupcompress+chk some more permutations

[John Szakmeister]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:29 AM, John Arbash Meinel
<john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
[snip]
> So at least in theory "time bzr branch code.py.org/python/trunk" would
> be just about as fast as a plain checkout from subversion. (I don't know
> if it compresses the fulltexts it sends, but it can't delta since you
> haven't gotten a checkout yet.)

IIRC, Subversion does compute a delta by self-compressing the
fulltexts as it is sending it over the wire.  It works quite well.

-John