From: J.C. Pizarro <jcpiza@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:36:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Question about your git habits
Message-ID: <998d0e4a0802230536w74e93ec3s40c77d52b183a419@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080223131749.GA5811@hashpling.org>

On 2008/2/23, Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 02:08:35PM +0100, J.C. Pizarro wrote:
>  >
>  > But if the repos are aggressively repacked then the bit to bit differences
>  > are not ~2 MiB.
>
>
> It shouldn't matter how aggressively the repositories are packed or what
>  the binary differences are between the pack files are. git clone
>  should (with the --reference option) generate a new pack for you with
>  only the missing objects. If these objects are ~52 MiB then a lot has
>  been committed to the repository, but you're not going to be able to
>  get around a big download any other way.

You're wrong, nothing has to be commited ~52 MiB to the repository.

I'm not saying "commit", i'm saying

"Assume A & B binary git repos and delta_B-A another binary file, i
request built
B' = A + delta_B-A where is verified SHA1(B') = SHA1(B) for avoiding
corrupting".

Assume B is the higher repacked version of "A + minor commits of the day"
as if B was optimizing 24 hours more the minimum spanning tree. Wow!!!