Re: Revisiting large binary files issue.

> Carl Baldwin <cnb@fc.hp.com> writes:
>
>> First, I would like to be able to set the packing window to 0 for all of
>> the git commands.  It would be nice if I could set this in a
>> per-repository config file so that any push/fetch operation would honor
>> this window.  Is there currently a way to do this?
>
> Should not be hard to add.
>
>> Second, I would like to not pay the penalty to inflate and then deflate
>> the objects into the pack when I use a window of 0.  How hard would this
>> be?  I am a capable programmer and wouldn't mind getting my hands dirty
>> in the code to implement this if someone could point me in the right
>> direction.
>
> The problem is that unpacked objects have the single line header
> (type followed by its inflated size in decimal) which starts the
> deflated stream, while in-pack representation of non-delta does
> not.
>
> There was an attempt to help doing this, but I haven't pursued it.
>
> 	http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/17368
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