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Re: What's in git.git

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Mar 6, 2006, 09:15 UTC
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Hi,
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Another thing I have started in "pu" branch is to stop placing
> an object we decided to delta that is already max-depth deep
> back in the delta-base window, because such a thing only wastes
> the delta base slot.  The changed pack-objects does pick up more
> delta, but the resulting pack seems bigger and I am puzzled why.

Not that I know much about the pack format, but is it possible that the deltas are deflated? In that case, a possible explanation is that a better delta is less compressible (and taken together, this could amount to more bytes).

Ciao, Dscho

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Message 8 of 9 in “What's in git.git”
  1. Junio C HamanoMar 6, 2006
  2. blame: unbreak "diff -U 0".Junio C Hamano, Mar 6, 2006
  3. Martin LanghoffMar 6, 2006
  4. Fredrik KuivinenMar 10, 2006
  5. Johannes SchindelinMar 10, 2006
  6. Martin LanghoffMar 10, 2006
  7. Junio C HamanoMar 13, 2006
  8. Johannes SchindelinMar 6, 2006
  9. Lukas SandströmMar 6, 2006

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