From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 14:58:43 GMT
Subject: Re: Figured out how to get Mozilla into git
Message-ID: <e6emmm$idv$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <448ADB8A.3070506@dawes.za.net>

Rogan Dawes wrote:

> 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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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland