From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joel Becker Subject: Re: [RFC] Cache negative delta pairs Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:43:49 -0700 Message-ID: <20060629214349.GA11640@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> References: <20060629180011.GA4392@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20060629185335.GA6704@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20060629195201.GA10786@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Nicolas Pitre , Jeff King , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 30 00:05:20 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fw4bs-00052h-Ms for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:03:41 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932859AbWF2WCu (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:02:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932830AbWF2VoJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:44:09 -0400 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:12184 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932812AbWF2VoG (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:44:06 -0400 Received: from rgmsgw02.us.oracle.com (rgmsgw02.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.52]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id k5TLhpq3010709; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:43:51 -0500 Received: from ca-server1.us.oracle.com (ca-server1.us.oracle.com [139.185.48.5]) by rgmsgw02.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id k5TLhorA021828 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:43:50 -0600 Received: from jlbec by ca-server1.us.oracle.com with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Fw4If-0000os-NV; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:43:49 -0700 To: Linus Torvalds Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. X-Red-Smith: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 02:30:11PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > However, that is obviously also the dis-advantage, since it means that > repacking cannot improve packing. So adding a flag to say "please try to > incrementally improve the pack" might well be worth it, even if this new > behaviour would be the _default_. I nominate "--pack-me-harder". Joel -- "Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years." - Bob Brown Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127