Re: [RFC] pack-objects: compression level for non-blobs

Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

I do not think there can be a single ordering that is strictly better than any other one. The "clump all objects in a delta family and write them width-first, starting from the base object" may give you a reasonable trade-off for a result of normal repack, but if you repack (like I do) with very shallow --depth with wide --window to really get a tight pack, a delta may end up having too may uncles between it and its father, requiring a large seek to skip over all the uncles in order to grab the delta data, after you reconstitute the delta base object.