Re: [PATCH] Prevent megablobs from gunking up git packs

On Thu, 24 May 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

Now #3 is actually really important here.  Don't forget that we
*just* disabled the fancy "new loose object format".  It doesn't
exist.  We can read the packfile-like loose objects, but we cannot
write them anymore.  So lets say we explode a megablob into a loose
object, and its 800 MiB by itself.  Now we have to send that object
to a client.  Yes, that's right, we must *RECOMPRESS* 800 MiB for
no reason.  Not the best choice.  Maybe we shouldn't have deleted
that packfile formatted loose object writer...

when did the object store get changed so that loose objects aren't 
compressed?

if the problem is that the codepath for fetching does an uncompress 
followed by a compress then it would seem that this is a fairly easy 
problem to fix (how hard would it be to add the headers around the 
compressed object to make it look to the receiver like it's a pack with 
only one thing in it)

David Lang