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Re: Why do base objects appear behind the delta in packs?

From
Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Aug 29, 2006, 18:32 UTC
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<20060829183239.GH21729@spearce.org>
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> I look forward to being able to use your (and Jon's) fast-import work in 
> order to play with (re)generation of big packs myself.
My repository is here:
  http://www.spearce.org/projects/scm/git.git
branch 'refs/heads/sp/fastpack'.

I'd appreciate it if folks didn't clone directly from me but instead used an existing clone to pull the branch down into. Its based on a fairly recent 'next' branch. Anything not available via Junio's 'next' on kernel.org is loose objects in this repository and are specific to my fast-import work.

Documentation of the protocol used to stuff a pack is in the header of fast-import.c. Its a relatively trivial stream format. It should be quite simple to generate a random large project and pipe it into fast-import to get a resulting pack to play with.

I don't have Jon's cvs2svn code and I don't know if its ready for public consumption yet. git-fast-import however looks like its almost there, so I'm making the URL publicly available for those that may be interested in it.

[Junio: please do the lazy thing and don't pull this into Git just
 yet, I don't think this branch is ready for that, not even for pu.]
-- 
Shawn.
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Message 8 of 9 in “Why do base objects appear behind the delta in packs?”
  1. Shawn PearceAug 29, 2006
  2. Nicolas PitreAug 29, 2006
  3. Jakub NarebskiAug 29, 2006
  4. Shawn PearceAug 29, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 29, 2006
  6. Shawn PearceAug 29, 2006
  7. Nicolas PitreAug 29, 2006
  8. Shawn PearceAug 29, 2006
  9. Jon SmirlAug 29, 2006

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