From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 19:37:40 GMT
Subject: Re: serious performance issues with images, audio files, and other "non-code" data
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1005181535130.12758@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20100518192758.GC2383@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, 18 May 2010, Jeff King wrote:

> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 09:10:58PM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 21:07, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > > No, not to my knowledge. Even the "binary" attribute just says "this
> > > file is binary, don't text diff it". I think we will always still do
> > > rewrite-detection for operations like "git status" and the diff summary
> > > of "git commit".
> > 
> > Would that not be a very sensible optimization that would help John
> > (and other users of big files) a lot?
> 
> It might help some, but I worry about overloading the meaning of
> "-delta". Right now it has a very clear meaning: don't delta for
> packfiles. But that doesn't mean I might not want to see break detection
> (or inexact rename detection, for that matter) at some time.

Indeed. Please keep the delta attribute for what it is named after: 
deltas. And those are meant to be used in the context of object packing 
only.


Nicolas