Re: Does GIT has vc keywords like CVS/Subversion?

On 10/10/06, Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

If you have the path, you can reuse the whole algorithm for finding
the best delta base.

Can I do that from Perl/bash? (how?)

However, if you do not have the path, you might as well just give up (if
there is no perfect match for the SHA1), since the SHA1 is _not_ similar
for similar contents. IOW, you'd literally have to search _all_ objects in
the repository, which usually takes a long, long time.

So the delta base algorithm doesn't work without a path. I thought we
had a quick way to find blobs of similar size. If the user can't even
give us a filename (that we can use to try and build a likely path)
then they have bigger problems than the delta ;-) -- at some point we
have to provide git-paddedcell for the remaining <ahem> users.

cheers,


maritn