From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 18:40:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFD/PATCH] Implement pack.compression and pack-objects --compression=N
Message-ID: <7vk5vr3w8n.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <463802ED.1080200@gmail.com>

Dana How <danahow@gmail.com> writes:

> Consequently,  for such a usage pattern it is useful
> to specify different compression levels for loose
> objects and packs.  This patch implements a config
> variable pack.compression in addition to the existing
> core.compression,  meant to be used for repacking.
> It also adds --compression=N to pack-objects,
> meant for push/pull/fetch,  if different,  or if different
> on a per-repository basis.
>
> ** THIS PATCH IS UNTESTED AND MEANT FOR DISCUSSION. **

I think we tweaked this area in the past, but I do not think
the current setting was determined to be the best tradeoff for
all workloads.  To be able to discuss the patch, I think it
needs to come with benchmark numbers using publicly available
repositories as guinea pigs and set of typical git operations,
so people can reproduce and compare notes.