From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 17:01:13 GMT Subject: Re: Handling large files with GIT Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > The fact that all the operations work on a full object, and the delta's > are (on purpose) just a very specific and limited kind of size > compression is just very ingrained. Side note: the original explicit git "delta" objects by Nicolas Pitre would have handled this large-file-case much more gracefully. The pack-files had absolutely huge advantages, though, so I think we (I) did the right thing there in making the delta code only a very specific special case.. It is possible that we could re-introduce the "explicit delta" object, though (it's not incompatible with also doing pack-files, it's just that pack-files made 99% of all the arguments for an explicit delta go away). Linus