Re: pack operation is thrashing my server

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Aug 15, 2008, 01:46 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808142139410.4352@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20080814223327.GV3782@spearce.org>

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
> > How does one go about getting the object sizes? rev-list appears
> > to have no option for it.
> 
> With great pain.  You can use the output of verify-pack -v to
> tell you the size of the inflated portion of the object, but for
> a delta this is the inflated size of the delta, not of the fully
> unpacked object.

Delta objects have the size of the final object in their header. There is get_size_from_delta() extracting that information already. There is simply no interface exporting that info to external tools but that shouldn't be hard to add.

Nicolas