Re: [PATCH] consider previous pack undeltified object state only when reusing delta data

Nicolas Pitre wrote:

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

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Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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Without this there would never be a chance to improve packing for
previously undeltified objects.

Earlier this year, I was quite surprised to learn that multiple repackings
actually improved packing. Does that patch mean this feature is gone?

The patch Linus sent removes that feature. This one re-introduces it.

Not really.

Actually that multiple repacking "feature" was rather an artifact of the 
delta data reuse code and not really by design.  Here's what happened 
before:

Thanks for the extensive and very clear info. Lovely to see a competent 
programmer who can also explain how things work. :)

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