From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:27:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing objects'
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0710182325300.19446@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20071019031535.GB9274@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Jeff King wrote:

> 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