From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 09:15:36 GMT
Subject: Re: What's in git.git
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0603061012120.1422@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v1wxg82r3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 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