From: Jakub Narebski Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:53:34 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] repack vs re-clone Message-ID: <200802112053.35141.jnareb@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > [*1*] I hope that '--no-reuse-delta' means _try_ to find better delta, > > but use current one as possible delta, not stupid forget about current > > deltaification at all... > > It is really "forget about everything". And by the time you look for > the best delta from scratch, remembering what was the best delta before > won't give you much performance gain, plus it has nasty issues like > making sure no delta cycles are created if you reuse an old delta, etc. So we have either: don't try to find better delta (default), or forget totally about old delta (--no-reuse-delta), no middle ground? That's bad... Or the default is try to find better delta, but reuse if better? -- Jakub Narebski Poland