Re: pack operation is thrashing my server

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

Andreas Ericsson [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

How does one go about getting the object sizes? rev-list appears
to have no option for it.

With great pain.  You can use the output of verify-pack -v to
tell you the size of the inflated portion of the object, but for
a delta this is the inflated size of the delta, not of the fully
unpacked object.

Delta objects have the size of the final object in their header.  There 
is get_size_from_delta() extracting that information already.  There is 
simply no interface exporting that info to external tools but that 
shouldn't be hard to add.


Nicolas