Re: Figured out how to get Mozilla into git
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
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- Jun 10, 2006, 14:58 UTC
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Rogan Dawes wrote:
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> Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Rogan Dawes <lists@dawes.za.net> writes: >> >>> Here's an idea. How about separating trees and commits from the actual >>> blobs (e.g. in separate packs)? >> >> If I remember my numbers correctly, trees for any project with a >> size that matters contribute nonnegligible amount of the total >> pack weight. Perhaps 10-25%. > > Out of curiosity, do you think that it may be possible for tree objects > to compress more/better if they are packed together? Or does the > existing pack compression logic already do the diff against similar tree > objects?
The problem with compressing and deltafying trees is with sha1 objects identifiers, I guess.
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