Re: Preferring shallower deltas on repack

> On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> It would become worrysome (*BUT* infinitely more interesting)
>> once you start talking about a tradeoff between slightly larger
>> delta and much shallower depth.  Such a tradeoff, if done right,
>> would make a lot of sense, but I do not offhand think of a way
>> to strike a proper balance between them efficiently.
>
> We already do something similar to that with max_size being a function 
> of the delta depth.  ...

> OK here it is.  And results on the GIT repo and another patalogical test 
> repo I keep around are actually really nice!  Not only the pack itself 
> is a bit smaller, but the delta depth distribution as shown by 
> git-verify-pack -v is much nicer with the bulk of deltas in the low 
> depth end of the spectrum and no more peak at the max depth level.