Re: [PATCH] Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing objects'
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
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- 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