Re: [RFC] Cache negative delta pairs

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jun 29, 2006, 21:35 UTC
Message-ID: <20060629213503.GA15604@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606291352110.12404@g5.osdl.org>

On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 02:04:01PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Instead of having a separate cache, wouldn't it be much better to just 
> take the hint from the previous pack-file?

I'd like to second Nicolas' "DOH!".

This drops my nasty load with roughly the same effect as the delta cache, and it does the same for the kernel repo. And it doesn't consume any extra disk space. Junio, please drop my delta-cache patch in favor of Linus' patch.

-Peff

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