From: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:02:45 GMT
Subject: Re: Are binary xdeltas only used if you use git-gc?
Message-ID: <20081031110245.GA22633@artemis.corp>
In-Reply-To: <f1d2d9ca0810310243r669840bbj2c5ee7183e0caaed@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 09:43:43AM +0000, Thanassis Tsiodras wrote:
> So even though the xdelta is just 8KB, and git-gc actually finds out
> that indeed
> the new file is very similar to the old one, the initial commit of the
> new version
> in the repos is not taking advantage.

Have you tried to git repack with aggressive options, like:

    git repack --window=500 --depth=500 \
      --window-memory=<fair amount of your physical RAM>

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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
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