From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:31:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Are binary xdeltas only used if you use git-gc?
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810311530290.13034@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20081031110245.GA22633@artemis.corp>

On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 09:43:43AM +0000, Thanassis Tsiodras wrote:
> > So even though the xdelta is just 8KB, and git-gc actually finds out
> > that indeed
> > the new file is very similar to the old one, the initial commit of the
> > new version
> > in the repos is not taking advantage.
> 
> Have you tried to git repack with aggressive options, like:
> 
>     git repack --window=500 --depth=500 \
>       --window-memory=<fair amount of your physical RAM>

That wouldn't bring any benefit in this case.


Nicolas