Re: [PATCH] Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing objects'

Jeff King wrote:

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 12:24:44PM +1000, David Symonds wrote:

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Forward thinking, that's probably most sensible, since git 4.7 might
not use delta compression, but maybe wavelet compression, or other
scheme entirely. Using deltas is an implementation detail, after all.

Git already uses two types of compression (zlib on all objects, deltas
between objects in packfiles). So just saying "compressing" is actually
a bit ambiguous, and I think noting that what we are _actually_ doing
right now is delta compression is worthwhile.

True.  But then, zlib compression is also delta compressing and huffman
coding.  Git's delta compression is quite similar; it just uses a larger
window than the sliding 64k gzip one.

Sam.`