From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:41:53 GMT
Subject: Re: 1.3.0 creating bigger packs than 1.2.3
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604201337220.2215@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604200954440.3701@g5.osdl.org>

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> That means that it probably _is_ the delta changes themselves (probably 
> commit c13c6bf7 "diff-delta: bound hash list length to avoid O(m*n) 
> behavior". You can try
> 
> 	git revert c13c6bf7
> 
> to see if that's it. Although Nico already showed interest, and if you 
> make the archive available to him, he's sure to figure it out.

It is not that.  With that code disabled there is still a 2x pack size.

Substituting diff-delta.c from the version in 1.2.3 doesn't solve the 
issue either.


Nicolas