Re: serious performance issues with images, audio files, and other "non-code" data

On Tue, 18 May 2010, Jeff King wrote:

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 09:10:58PM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

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On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 21:07, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

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No, not to my knowledge. Even the "binary" attribute just says "this
file is binary, don't text diff it". I think we will always still do
rewrite-detection for operations like "git status" and the diff summary
of "git commit".

Would that not be a very sensible optimization that would help John
(and other users of big files) a lot?

It might help some, but I worry about overloading the meaning of
"-delta". Right now it has a very clear meaning: don't delta for
packfiles. But that doesn't mean I might not want to see break detection
(or inexact rename detection, for that matter) at some time.

Indeed. Please keep the delta attribute for what it is named after: 
deltas. And those are meant to be used in the context of object packing 
only.


Nicolas