Re: [PATCH] Prevent megablobs from gunking up git packs

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: May 24, 2007, 17:29 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705241828160.4648@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705241020450.21766@asgard.lang.hm>

Hi,

On Thu, 24 May 2007, david@lang.hm wrote:

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> On Thu, 24 May 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> 
> > Now #3 is actually really important here.  Don't forget that we
> > *just* disabled the fancy "new loose object format".  It doesn't
> > exist.  We can read the packfile-like loose objects, but we cannot
> > write them anymore.  So lets say we explode a megablob into a loose
> > object, and its 800 MiB by itself.  Now we have to send that object
> > to a client.  Yes, that's right, we must *RECOMPRESS* 800 MiB for
> > no reason.  Not the best choice.  Maybe we shouldn't have deleted
> > that packfile formatted loose object writer...
> 
> when did the object store get changed so that loose objects aren't
> compressed?

That never happened. But we had a different file format for loose objects, which was meant to make it easier to copy as-is into a pack. That file format went away, since it was not as useful as we hoped.

Ciao, Dscho