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Re: [PATCH] Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing objects'

From
Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date
Oct 19, 2007, 03:27 UTC
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On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Jeff King wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:11:26PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> > I think we might sidestep the issue entirely by remaining somewhat vague 
> > and simply saying "compressing objects" for that phase.  This is the 
> > part responsible for the reduction of a Git repository from 3GB down to 
> > 200MB anyway.
> 
> OK. I liked it a little more specific, but perhaps users really don't
> care what's going on. And it seems there is some support of simply
> "compressing", so that's probably reasonable.
> 
> I think that is going to make the statistics line doubly confusing,
> though, since we never even use the word "delta" (or any wacky
> verbifications based on it), and then they get a line about numbers of
> new and reused deltas.

Well, at least the statistics are real, and we're not inventing anything here.

Nicolas
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Message 38 of 38 in “Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing objects'”
  1. Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing objects'Shawn O. Pearce, Oct 19, 2007
  2. Jeff KingOct 19, 2007
  3. Sam VilainOct 19, 2007
  4. David SymondsOct 19, 2007
  5. Shawn O. PearceOct 19, 2007
  6. Nicolas PitreOct 19, 2007
  7. Jeff KingOct 19, 2007
  8. Sam VilainOct 19, 2007
  9. Jeff KingOct 19, 2007
  10. Shawn O. PearceOct 19, 2007
  11. Jeff KingOct 19, 2007
  12. Shawn O. PearceOct 19, 2007
  13. Nicolas PitreOct 19, 2007
  14. Jeff KingOct 19, 2007
  15. Nicolas PitreOct 19, 2007
  16. Jeff KingOct 19, 2007
  17. Nicolas PitreOct 19, 2007
  18. Jeff KingOct 19, 2007
  19. Linus TorvaldsOct 19, 2007
  20. Jeff KingOct 19, 2007
  21. Nicolas PitreOct 19, 2007
  22. Linus TorvaldsOct 19, 2007
  23. Linus TorvaldsOct 19, 2007
  24. Shawn O. PearceOct 19, 2007
  25. Shawn O. PearceOct 19, 2007
  26. Stop displaying "Pack pack-$ID created." during git-gcShawn O. Pearce, Oct 19, 2007
  27. Nicolas PitreOct 19, 2007
  28. Shawn O. PearceOct 19, 2007
  29. Nicolas PitreOct 19, 2007
  30. Jeff KingOct 19, 2007
  31. Shawn O. PearceOct 19, 2007
  32. Nicolas PitreOct 19, 2007
  33. Wincent ColaiutaOct 19, 2007
  34. Nicolas PitreOct 19, 2007
  35. Jeff KingOct 19, 2007
  36. Nicolas PitreOct 19, 2007
  37. Jeff KingOct 19, 2007
  38. Nicolas PitreOct 19, 2007

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