Re: [PATCH] diff-delta: produce optimal pack data

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Carl Baldwin wrote:

My version is 1.2.1.  I have not been following your work.  When was
pack data reuse introduced?

Try out version 1.2.3.

From where can I obtain your delta patches?

Forget them for now -- they won't help you.

There is really no opportunity for pack-data reuse in this case.  The
repository had never been packed or cloned in the first place.  As I
said, I do not intend to pack these binary files at all since there is
no benefit in this case.

Yes there is, as long as you have version 1.2.3.  The clone logic will 
simply reuse already packed data without attempting to recompute it.

The delta patches may help but I can't say for sure since I don't know
anything about them.

They (actually the last one) might help reduce the size of resulting 
packs but it currently has performance problems with some patological 
data sets.

I think you really should try git version 1.2.3 with a packed 
repository.  It might handle your special case just fine.


Nicolas