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Re: [PATCH 0/6] packed deltas with offset to base instead of sha1

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Sep 21, 2006, 05:30 UTC
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
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> The following patches are the result of my work to allow deltas to have
> their base specified as an offset within a pack instead of a 20 byte 
> sha1.
>
> This turned to be somewhat more involved than I originally expected. 
> Given the relative pack reduction resulting from that, I might have 
> decided against doing this if I had known beforehand how much work was 
> needed.
>
> But since it is done now I think it is worth merging nevertheless.  Some 
> parts are still pure code cleanups anyway.
>
> Overall the larger projects are likely to benefit more as they have a 
> larger proportion of deltas.  On the historic Linux archive the pack 
> reduction is about 5%.

Nice, although I suspect this would make it a bit more involved to merge a few outstanding stuff.

Will take a look when I'm done looking at Linus's packed-ref stuff.

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  1. 0/6 packed deltas with offset to base instead of sha1Nicolas Pitre, Sep 21, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 21, 2006
  3. Shawn PearceSep 21, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoSep 22, 2006

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