From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 21:35:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Cache negative delta pairs
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