Re: [PATCH] binary patch.

On Fri, 5 May 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] writes:

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+	delta = NULL;
+	deflated = deflate_it(two->ptr, two->size, &deflate_size);
+	if (one->size && two->size) {
+		delta = diff_delta(one->ptr, one->size,
+				   two->ptr, two->size,
+				   &delta_size, deflate_size);

Here you probably want to use deflate_size-1 (deflate_size can't be 0).

I am not sure if -1 is worth here.

The delta is going to be deflated and hopefully gets a bit
smaller, so if we really care that level of detail, it might be
worth to do (deflate_size*3/2) or something like that here, use
delta with or without deflate whichever is smaller, and mark the
uncompressed delta with a different tag ("uncompressed delta"?).
And for symmetry, to deal with uncompressible data, we may want
to have "uncompressed literal" as well.

Nah...  Please just forget that.  ;-)


Nicolas