I cannot help thinking I am missing the point.
I have a jenkins system that is to store builds in artifactory pro, I would like to end up able to compare builds on the artifactory server and download a set of files as a zip file.
The output of my build is a few thousand files in a folder structure.
As I understand it, artifactory uses a de-duplicating file system so the efficient way to do it is to upload each file individually as only a few change each build.
When I do this, it takes 20 mins but the result on the server is good, I can compare builds and see the changes, however I cannot download the whole release, I need to click on each file and do them one by one.
If I upload a zip file, it is quicker and I can download it, but I loose the ability to see the files inside and presumably this will eat up disk space as there can be no de-duplication.
Ah - the explode option, this unpacks the zip file on the artifactory server, brilliant, except if I diff builds it just shows me the original archive and says, it changed, yet I still have to download every file individually.
Has any one cracked this thing, I want fast upload, diff files (with efficient storage) and single click download?
