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Re: Balanced packing strategy

From
CSCraig Schlenter <craig@codefountain.com>
Date
Nov 14, 2005, 05:03 UTC
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Hi
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> From: Josef Weidendorfer [mailto:Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de]
> [snip]
> AFAICS, the git native protocol (which is nothing more than a pack itself
> for each transfer) even has this problem, too: If you are updating every
> day via git native, the sum of transfered bytes in a month will be a
> multiple of one git transfer for all the month's changes.

Interesting ... is this because in a bigger pack the compression will be better as there is probably more stuff to "delta" against?

--Craig
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  1. Craig SchlenterNov 14, 2005
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