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Re: Repacking many disconnected blobs

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date
Jun 14, 2006, 21:20 UTC
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On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Keith Packard wrote:
> Hmm. As I'm deltafying along branches, the delta data should actually be
> fairly good; the only 'bad' result will be the sub-optimal object
> ordering in the pack files. I'll experiment with some larger trees to
> see how much additional savings the various repack options yield.

Note that the object list order is unlikely to affect pack size. It is really about optimizing the pack layout for subsequent access to it.

Nicolas
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Message 15 of 15 in “Repacking many disconnected blobs”
  1. Keith PackardJun 14, 2006
  2. Shawn PearceJun 14, 2006
  3. Johannes SchindelinJun 14, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 14, 2006
  5. Sergey VlasovJun 14, 2006
  6. Linus TorvaldsJun 14, 2006
  7. Keith PackardJun 14, 2006
  8. Linus TorvaldsJun 14, 2006
  9. Linus TorvaldsJun 14, 2006
  10. Keith PackardJun 14, 2006
  11. Linus TorvaldsJun 14, 2006
  12. Nicolas PitreJun 14, 2006
  13. Keith PackardJun 14, 2006
  14. Linus TorvaldsJun 14, 2006
  15. Nicolas PitreJun 14, 2006

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