From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:32:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Creating objects manually and repack
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608040931000.5167@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910608040911p443a1360k6d9d1aab00039100@mail.gmail.com>



On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Jon Smirl wrote:
> 
> That is under consideration but the undeltafied pack is about 12GB and
> it takes forever (about a day) to deltafy it. I'm not convinced yet
> that an undeltafied pack is any faster than just having the objects in
> the directories.

Yeah, I think it's worth it deltifying things early, as you seem to get 
all the object info in the right order anyway (ie you do the revisions for 
one file in one go).

		Linus