Re: getting list of objects for packing

Brandon Casey [off-list ref] writes:

Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

Yeah, but wasn't the purpose of your whole exercise to list objects that
do not delta nor compress well with each other, in which case the delta
compression order (aka name hash) would not matter, no?

The script I wrote actually starts up two pack-objects instances and I was
writing the objects I wanted to pack _normally_ to one, and the ones that I
did not want compressed/deltafied to the other (which was started with
--no-reuse-object --window=0 --depth=0 --compression=0).

I didn't mentioned that fact in my first email, but I'm very glad Nico
made his point.

Wasn't there some gitattribute which prohibited deltification of some
files (`delta` or something)?  Or wasn't this patch accepted, as I
cannot find such attribute in documentation (gitattributes(5))...
... err, it was added in commit a74db82e15cd8a2c53a4a83e9a36dc7bf7a4c750
(Teach "delta" attribute to pack-objects.) by Junio C Hamano in May
19, _without_ documentation.

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