From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:10:29 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] pack-objects: use of version 3 delta is now optional. Message-ID: <7vac3xzbze.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Nicolas Pitre writes: > On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> This introduces a new configuration item, pack.deltaversion, to >> control whether pack-objects is allowed to use version 3 delta. >> By default, we keep generating version 2 delta (and version 2 >> packfile format) to be compatible with git earlier than v1.2.0. >... > I'd suggest to drop this altogether. See my previous email for my > reasoning on this issue. I think this should be done another way. I'll think about it a bit. > If anything, maybe this patch can be added before v1.4.3 is released: >... > This way pack v3 could be fed to GIT v1.4.3 and above whenever we add > back pack v3 generation, and a pack converted to v2 from any v3 on the > fly when that capability is not present. I think that is sensible. I also was thinking that we should call the current one packv3 and the one with delta-base-offset packv4.