From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 16:26:25 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Custom compression levels for objects and packs Message-ID: <7vlkfyt13i.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Nicolas Pitre writes: > So I suggest that we get rid of core.legacyheaders, preserve the legacy > format as the only writable loose object format and deprecate the other > one to keep things simpler. Thoughts? I agree with your analysis, especially when deeper delta chains are allowed, straight copy of loose object becomes less and less likely. > What we need instead is a --no-reuse-object that would force > recompression of everything when you really want to enforce a specific > compression level across the whole pack(s). Yeah. Or maybe --no-reuse to mean both and make '-f' a short-hand synonym for that. I do not see much reason to want to tweak them independently; recomputing delta is much more expensive than recompressing anyway, and when the user says 'repack -f', it is a sign that the user is willing to spend CPU cycles.