From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:42:16 GMT
Subject: PATCH/RFC] allow delta data reuse even if base object is a preferred base
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609271536470.9349@xanadu.home>


Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>

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Any reason why this couldn't be done?

When I reworked that code I preserved the existing logic wrt preferred 
base.  However I could not find a reason why it was that way.  Hence 
this patch.

diff --git a/builtin-pack-objects.c b/builtin-pack-objects.c
index 6db97b6..ee5f031 100644
--- a/builtin-pack-objects.c
+++ b/builtin-pack-objects.c
@@ -989,7 +988,7 @@ static void check_object(struct object_e
 		unuse_packed_git(p);
 		entry->in_pack_header_size = used;
 
-		if (base_entry && !base_entry->preferred_base) {
+		if (base_entry) {
 
 			/* Depth value does not matter - find_deltas()
 			 * will never consider reused delta as the