From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 22:35:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Bump core.deltaBaseCacheLimit to 128MiB
Message-ID: <xmqqob10wlac.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <87lhw4er2b.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> The only
>>> downside I see is large blobs will be packed  undeltified, which could
>>> increase pack size if you have lots of them.
>>
>> I think that is something that can be tweaked, unless the user tells
>> us otherwise via command line override, when running the improved
>> "gc --aggressive" ;-)
>
> deltaBaseCacheLimit is used for unpacking, not for packing.

Hmm, doesn't packing need to read existing data?