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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] repack vs re-clone
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:53:34 +0100
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Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
> > [*1*] I hope that '--no-reuse-delta' means _try_ to find better delta,
> > but use current one as possible delta, not stupid forget about current
> > deltaification at all...
> 
> It is really "forget about everything".  And by the time you look for 
> the best delta from scratch, remembering what was the best delta before 
> won't give you much performance gain, plus it has nasty issues like 
> making sure no delta cycles are created if you reuse an old delta, etc.

So we have either: don't try to find better delta (default), or forget
totally about old delta (--no-reuse-delta), no middle ground? That's
bad...

Or the default is try to find better delta, but reuse if better?

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland