Re: Preferring shallower deltas on repack

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 9, 2007, 05:43 UTC
Message-ID: <7vsl7yw2rl.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v1wfixhvk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> It would become worrysome (*BUT* infinitely more interesting)
> once you start talking about a tradeoff between slightly larger
> delta and much shorter delta.  Such a tradeoff, if done right,

s/and much shorter delta/and much shallower depth/.

Should be obvious from the context, but just in case -- without the above correction what I said does not make any sense ;-).

> would make a lot of sense, but I do not offhand think of a way
> to strike a proper balance between them efficiently.