Re: Revisiting large binary files issue.

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jul 10, 2006, 23:14 UTC
Message-ID: <7v7j2l833o.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060710230132.GA11132@hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com>

Carl Baldwin <cnb@fc.hp.com> writes:

> First, I would like to be able to set the packing window to 0 for all of
> the git commands.  It would be nice if I could set this in a
> per-repository config file so that any push/fetch operation would honor
> this window.  Is there currently a way to do this?

Should not be hard to add.

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> Second, I would like to not pay the penalty to inflate and then deflate
> the objects into the pack when I use a window of 0.  How hard would this
> be?  I am a capable programmer and wouldn't mind getting my hands dirty
> in the code to implement this if someone could point me in the right
> direction.

The problem is that unpacked objects have the single line header (type followed by its inflated size in decimal) which starts the deflated stream, while in-pack representation of non-delta does not.

There was an attempt to help doing this, but I haven't pursued it.

	http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/17368