From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 08:52:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Problem with large files on different OSes
Message-ID: <4A1E50D4.2010203@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <279b37b20905272252i3d98b6bv698ff636d61ee058@mail.gmail.com>

Eric Raible wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
>> Eric Raible <raible@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Nicolas Pitre <nico <at> cam.org> writes:
>>>> On Wed, 27 May 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> +pack.packDeltaLimit::
>>>>> + The default maximum size of objects that we try to delta.
>>>> The option name feels a bit wrong here, like if it meant the max number
>>>> of deltas in a pack.  Nothing better comes to my mind at the moment
>>>> though.
>>> pack.maxDeltaSize sounds weird when said aloud.
>>> How about pack.deltaMaxSize?
>> That sounds like, how big should a delta be?  E.g. set it to 200
>> and any delta instruction stream over 200 bytes would be discarded,
>> causing the whole object to be stored instead.  Which is obviously
>> somewhat silly, but that's the way I'd read that option...
>>
>> --
>> Shawn.
> 
> You're right, that _is_ a strange color for the bike shed...

Since 'delta' names both the action and the result of the action, it's
tricky to get it unambiguous without helping the grammar along a little.

    pack.maxFileSizeToDelta

is probably the shortest we're going to get it while avoiding ambiguity.

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