Re: [PATCH 00/11] writing out a huge blob to working tree
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- May 18, 2011, 15:12 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> (I still think the concept of avoiding the revindex should > still work in principle, though).
Yes, absolutely. The streaming code cares only about non-delta, and in general applying delta without holding the base image entirely in core would be horribly complex unless the delta only runs forwards over the delta-base image. The true general case is not something this topic is interested in (it is primarily about the large objects), and limiting ourselves to non-delta case is just as fine.