Re: getting list of objects for packing

From: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date: Oct 31, 2008, 20:48 UTC
Message-ID: <JhY9the71dfsAJuojZF2S4BG-SEkshM7XxIWGPBeY9M@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810311625450.13034@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Brandon Casey wrote:

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>>   -The sed statement is stripping off anything after the sha1. Any way to
>>    get rev-list to print out just the sha1 so that sed is not necessary?
> 
> If you strip the data after the SHA1 when pipping into pack-objects then 
> you'll have horrible delta compression results.  The path names after 
> each SHA1 is used to sort objects when trying to find best matches for 
> delta compression. So you should preserve those and feed it back 
> especially with those packs that you still want delta compression for.

Ah, I'll have to rethink my script then. Thanks!

-brandon

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