Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:
It would become worrysome (*BUT* infinitely more interesting)
once you start talking about a tradeoff between slightly larger
delta and much shorter delta. Such a tradeoff, if done right,
s/and much shorter delta/and much shallower depth/.
Should be obvious from the context, but just in case -- without
the above correction what I said does not make any sense ;-).
would make a lot of sense, but I do not offhand think of a way
to strike a proper balance between them efficiently.