Re: [RFC] pack-objects: compression level for non-blobs

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 29, 2012, 04:34 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8D_E0shqJAvZH7xqij6F4a6qUxkUPNcZL=0yX5w9bLd_g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20121229004104.GA24828@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> I wonder if we could do even better, though. For a traversal, we only
> need to look at the commit header. We could potentially do a progressive
> inflate and stop before getting to the commit message (which is the bulk
> of the data, and the part that is most likely to benefit from
> compression).

Commit cache should solve this efficiently as it also eliminates parsing cost. We discussed this last time as a side topic of the reachability bitmap feature.

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Duy