From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 15:36:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Lazily open pack index files on demand
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.99.0705271135180.3366@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20070527104600.GA23554@auto.tuwien.ac.at>

On Sun, 27 May 2007, Martin Koegler wrote:

> Dana How wrote:
> > (1c) Do not deltify naughty blobs.  Naughty blobs are those
> >      blobs marked "nodelta" or very large blobs.
> 
> I don't like the idea to exclude any blobs from delta by default, if
> the delta could be done.

It won't happen by default.

> If the "very large blobs" are text files with
> very few difference, they deltifiy very well.
> 
> Additionlly, how do you want to define "very large blobs"? 

This is indeed a per repository attribute that is highly dependent on 
your data set.


Nicolas