Re: git pack/unpack over bittorrent - works!

Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] writes:

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 i can - so that git pack-objects, after "git repack -f", returns a
canonical pack! :)

But did you try it?  The -f means "don't reuse any existing pack data 
and recompute every delta from scratch to find the best matches".  This 
is a very very costly operation that most people happily live without.

Also "the best matches" will change, hopefully in a better way, with newer
vintage of git.  Optimization like c83f032 (apply delta depth bias to
already deltified objects, 2007-07-12) that is based on heuristics derived
from empirical statistics can and should be allowed to happen.