Re: git-fetching from a big repository is slow

> Geert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com> wrote:
> > Such special magic based on filenames is always a bad idea. Tomorrow  
> > somebody
> > comes with .zip files (oh, and of course .ZIP), then it's .jpg's other
> > compressed content. In the end git will be doing lots of magic and  
> > still perform
> > badly on unknown compressed content.
> > 
> > There is a very simple way of detecting compressed files: just look  
> > at the
> > size of the compressed blob and compare against the size of the  
> > expanded blob.
> > If the compressed blob has a non-trivial size which is close to the  
> > expanded
> > size, assume the file is not interesting as source or target for deltas.
> > 
> > Example:
> >    if (compressed_size > expanded_size / 4 * 3 + 1024) {
> >      /* don't try to deltify if blob doesn't compress well */
> >      return ...;
> >    }
> 
> And yet I get good delta compression on a number of ZIP formatted files 
> which don't get good additional zlib compression (<3%). Doing the above 
> would cause those packfiles to explode to about 10x their current size.