From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:40:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] repack vs re-clone
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802111436100.2732@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <m3myq7e3ie.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> [*1*] I hope that '--no-reuse-delta' means _try_ to find better delta,
> but use current one as possible delta, not stupid forget about current
> deltaification at all...

It is really "forget about everything".  And by the time you look for 
the best delta from scratch, remembering what was the best delta before 
won't give you much performance gain, plus it has nasty issues like 
making sure no delta cycles are created if you reuse an old delta, etc.


Nicolas