From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2016 15:04:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] more archives of this list
Message-ID: <CACsJy8DkNUD_dKwnx9nZsgvSxgdA8MH=2+rEWzMFdkigmhpJ5g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160805092805.w3nwv2l6jkbuwlzf@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> There was discussion a long time ago about storing a common zlib
> dictionary in the packfile and using it for all of the objects. I don't
> recall whether there were any patches, though. It does create some
> complications with serving clones/fetches, as they may ask for a subset
> of the objects (so you have to send them the whole dictionary, which may
> be a lot of overhead if you're only fetching a few objects).

I'm nit picking since it's not actually "all objects". But pack v4
patches have two dictionaries (or more? i don't remember) for commits
and trees :)
-- 
Duy