Re: What's in git.git (stable)

From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 14, 2006, 13:20 UTC
Message-ID: <200612141320.26729.andyparkins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061214121048.GM1747@spearce.org>

On Thursday 2006 December 14 12:10, Shawn Pearce wrote:

> not predict future results"...  The size of objects in the pack
> tends to be small up front (commits/trees) and larger in the back
> (blobs).  The size distribution probably also gets more erratic
> near the back as the blob sizes may not follow a nice distribution.

Oh well; that pretty much settles it then.

> But as you state, its easy to refine it over time, and the closer we
> get to the end the more likely it is to be correct.  Unless its that
> 23 MiB blob.  As it takes up about 85% of that repository's pack.

I had imagined (foolishly), that most objects would be diffs, and would be similarly sized.

Scratch that.

Andy

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Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE

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