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> They also have a (complex and potentially error-prone) way to look into .gz files and sync them extremely efficiently even without gzip --rsyncable.

FWIW, the last release of `zsync` predates `gzip --rsyncable` by about six years¹.

> People should feel free to ask me any questions

"Thanks" isn't a question, but thanks for creating `redo` and the great articles. I always seem to come out of them having learnt something new, and often end up rabbit holed in the interesting side topics that are raised too.

1. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/tree/NEWS#n74




You're welcome :)

The zsync docs clearly talk about "gzip --rsync", which I guess must have been an earlier version of "gzip --rsyncable".




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