Re: git repack command on larger pack file

> Git tries to take some shortcuts when repacking: if two objects are in
> the same pack but not deltas, it will not consider making deltas out of
> them. The logic is we would already have tried that while making the
> original pack. But of course when you are doing weird things with the
> packing parameters, that is not always a good assumption.

> [1] This is all theory, and I don't know how well git actually finds
>     such deltas, but it is probably better to have a dense tree of
>     deltas rather than long chains.  If you have a chain of N objects
>     and would to add object N+1 to it, you are probably not much worse
>     off to base it on object N-1, creating a "fork" at N.