Re: [PATCH v2] Custom compression levels for objects and packs

> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
>
> > So I suggest that we get rid of core.legacyheaders, preserve the legacy
> > format as the only writable loose object format and deprecate the other
> > one to keep things simpler.  Thoughts?
>
> I agree with your analysis, especially when deeper delta chains
> are allowed, straight copy of loose object becomes less and less
> likely.

> > What we need instead is a --no-reuse-object that would force
> > recompression of everything when you really want to enforce a specific
> > compression level across the whole pack(s).
>
> Yeah.  Or maybe --no-reuse to mean both and make '-f' a
> short-hand synonym for that.
>
> I do not see much reason to want to tweak them independently;
> recomputing delta is much more expensive than recompressing
> anyway, and when the user says 'repack -f', it is a sign that
> the user is willing to spend CPU cycles.