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Re: [RFC] Cache negative delta pairs

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jun 29, 2006, 21:39 UTC
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<20060629213929.GC15604@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 02:30:11PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> However, that is obviously also the dis-advantage, since it means that 
> repacking cannot improve packing. So adding a flag to say "please try to 
> incrementally improve the pack" might well be worth it, even if this new 
> behaviour would be the _default_.

We could tie the on/off to --no-reuse-delta, since you would mostly want them at the same time. This disallows repacking over and over to try to incrementally improve size. Do people actually do that?

> Hmm? Jeff, does this work for your load?
Yes, just as well as my original patch.
-Peff
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Message 22 of 36 in “Re: [RFC] Cache negative delta pairs”
  1. Junio C HamanoJun 29, 2006
  2. Jeff KingJun 29, 2006
  3. [RFC] Cache negative delta pairsJeff King, Jun 29, 2006
  4. Jeff KingJun 29, 2006
  5. Nicolas PitreJun 29, 2006
  6. Jeff KingJun 29, 2006
  7. Nicolas PitreJun 29, 2006
  8. Jeff KingJun 29, 2006
  9. Nicolas PitreJun 29, 2006
  10. Jeff KingJun 29, 2006
  11. Nicolas PitreJun 29, 2006
  12. Nicolas PitreJun 29, 2006
  13. Jeff KingJun 29, 2006
  14. Nicolas PitreJun 29, 2006
  15. Jeff KingJun 29, 2006
  16. Nicolas PitreJun 29, 2006
  17. Jeff KingJun 29, 2006
  18. Nicolas PitreJun 29, 2006
  19. Linus TorvaldsJun 29, 2006
  20. Nicolas PitreJun 29, 2006
  21. Linus TorvaldsJun 29, 2006
  22. Jeff KingJun 29, 2006
  23. Joel BeckerJun 29, 2006
  24. Nicolas PitreJun 29, 2006
  25. Junio C HamanoJun 29, 2006
  26. consider previous pack undeltified object state only when reusing delta dataNicolas Pitre, Jun 30, 2006
  27. Johannes SchindelinJun 30, 2006
  28. Andreas EricssonJun 30, 2006
  29. Nicolas PitreJun 30, 2006
  30. Andreas EricssonJul 3, 2006
  31. Jeff KingJun 29, 2006
  32. Junio C HamanoJun 29, 2006
  33. Junio C HamanoJun 29, 2006
  34. Junio C HamanoJun 29, 2006
  35. Jeff KingJun 29, 2006
  36. Jakub NarebskiJun 29, 2006

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