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Compression improvements #207

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Compression improvements #207

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Commits on Oct 4, 2015

  1. xz magic is actually 6 bytes long

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  2. use gzip -n option for compression 

    to omit the timestamp and thus produce reproducible compression output
which has a chance to match the original
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  3. add compression-level detection logic

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  4. detect xz, bz2 and gz compression level 

    this can help to get closer to identical files
after applying deltas
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