Compression Support

[bansalvinayak]

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Description of the problem / feature request:

Remote Execution API has released support for Compressed Transfer (bazelbuild/remote-apis#168), and it would be good for bazel to take advantage of it

Feature requests: what underlying problem are you trying to solve with this feature?

Save network bytes and speed up upload and download transfers for network constrained clients

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What's the output of bazel info release?

All versions are in scope

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What's the output of git remote get-url origin ; git rev-parse master ; git rev-parse HEAD ?

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