From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 05:43:26 GMT Subject: Re: Preferring shallower deltas on repack Message-ID: <7vsl7yw2rl.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <7v1wfixhvk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Junio C Hamano 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.