From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:51:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-repack: -b to pass --delta-base-offset
Message-ID: <ego5kp$fm4$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610130912500.2435@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
>> This new option makes the resulting pack express the delta base
>> with more compact "offset" format.
> 
> Actually I thought about making it the default whenever git-pack-objects 
> supported it, and use a negative option with git-repack to disable it 
> instead.
> 
> The fact is that there is little reason for not using delta base offsets 
> in most cases and specifying -b all the time would become more of an 
> annoyance.

Perhaps we should leave it to configuretion variable, instead?
And turn the new format on by default, like core.legacyHeaders
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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