Re: [PATCH] diff-delta: produce optimal pack data

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Feb 24, 2006, 19:03 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602241358070.31162@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20060224184934.GA387@hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com>

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Carl Baldwin wrote:

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> I've updated to a very current master branch.  This seems to include the
> pack data reuse stuff.  I've not made an attempt yet to apply your delta
> patches.
> 
> git-repack quickly gets up to 5% (2/36) and hangs there.  I'll let it
> run for a while just to see how far it claims to get.  I'm not hopeful.

It should complete sometimes, probably after the same amount of time needed by your previous clone attempt. But after that any clone operation should be quick. This is clearly unacceptable but at least with the pack data reuse you should suffer only once for the initial repack.

> Maybe your patches can help?

No. They actually make things worse performance wise, much worse in some special cases.

Is it possible for me to have access to 2 consecutive versions of your big binary file?

Nicolas