From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 05:30:50 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] packed deltas with offset to base instead of sha1 Message-ID: <7v4pv1eqgl.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Nicolas Pitre writes: > 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.