From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:57:04 GMT
Subject: Re: Are binary xdeltas only used if you use git-gc?
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0811032053410.13034@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7v3ai8tgq9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
> 
> > Right.  Those thin packs were designed for different versions of the 
> > same file in mind, not different files with almost the same content.  
> > This could possibly be improved at some point...
> 
> Wouldn't using a large --window help by going across name-hash boundaries?

The issue is to decide what preferred delta base to add to the list of 
objects.  Currently only objects with the same path as those being 
modified are considered.


Nicolas