Re: [RFC] Cache negative delta pairs

On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 02:30:11PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

However, that is obviously also the dis-advantage, since it means that 
repacking cannot improve packing. So adding a flag to say "please try to 
incrementally improve the pack" might well be worth it, even if this new 
behaviour would be the _default_.

We could tie the on/off to --no-reuse-delta, since you would mostly
want them at the same time. This disallows repacking over and over to
try to incrementally improve size. Do people actually do that?

Hmm? Jeff, does this work for your load?

Yes, just as well as my original patch.

-Peff