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

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Carl Baldwin wrote:

I've updated to a very current master branch.  This seems to include the
pack data reuse stuff.  I've not made an attempt yet to apply your delta
patches.

git-repack quickly gets up to 5% (2/36) and hangs there.  I'll let it
run for a while just to see how far it claims to get.  I'm not hopeful.

It should complete sometimes, probably after the same amount of time 
needed by your previous clone attempt.  But after that any clone 
operation should be quick.  This is clearly unacceptable but at least 
with the pack data reuse you should suffer only once for the initial 
repack.

Maybe your patches can help?

No.  They actually make things worse performance wise, much worse in 
some special cases.

Is it possible for me to have access to 2 consecutive versions of your 
big binary file?


Nicolas