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Re: [PATCH] mkdelta enhancements

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date
May 26, 2005, 12:44 UTC
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On Wed, 25 May 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> I have not measured and I have not studied how the current
> mkdelta does things, but if you are not doing so already it may
> make sense to keep the later one expanded in full and represent
> older ones as delta, since that would give faster access to more
> often used items (I am assuming more recent version are likely
> to be accessed more frequently, which I believe is what SCMs
> typically do.
This is precisely what is done with git-deltafy-script.

The mkdelta program doesn't know about object history. It only enforce delta precedence according to the order objects are listed on the command line. It's up to mkdelta users to enforce any ordering policy.

Nicolas
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