From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 15:12:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] writing out a huge blob to working tree
Message-ID: <7vzkmkcaaz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110518075023.GD27482@sigill.intra.peff.net>

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.