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Convert npm's compressed tarballs to uncompressed.

See original GitHub issue

Just discovered this project today through a comment on Reddit. Interesting project!

One thing that came to mind is that source control systems may not handle compressed tarballs very well, as every update to a package would result in a new copy of the entire file in the repo, which can make the repo very large. Perhaps uncompressed tarballs (ie. .tar files, not .tar.gz or .tgz) would be better since they can actually be diffed? I’m not sure if Git still treats tars as binary though, in which case it might not actually add any value. Just a thought 😃

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Created 7 years ago
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JamieMasoncommented, Aug 4, 2016

should be fixed now in npm install -g git://git@github.com:JamieMason/shrinkpack.git#708e7455a3ef0b154fce2cd8bf06bc44fca991a3 @szarouski, sorry about that.

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JamieMasoncommented, Aug 2, 2016

perfect @DrewML 😎👌

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