Re: [PATCH 00/11] writing out a huge blob to working tree

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 03:08:37AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

Part of the problem is that with the current code, all you care about is
"Is it loose, packed non-delta, or packed delta?".
[...]
The patch below implements the cheap "is_delta" check.

Hmm, sorry, this patch works well on top of cd36b7b, where I first
detected the slowness, but later in the series we actually do look at
the pack information in the object_info. So my patch breaks that code
path horribly (I still think the concept of avoiding the revindex should
still work in principle, though).

-Peff