From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Eric Raible <raible@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem with large files on different OSes
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 21:30:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090528043019.GA30527@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20090528T041831-21@post.gmane.org>
Eric Raible <raible@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nicolas Pitre <nico <at> cam.org> writes:
> > On Wed, 27 May 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > > +pack.packDeltaLimit::
> > > + The default maximum size of objects that we try to delta.
> >
> > The option name feels a bit wrong here, like if it meant the max number
> > of deltas in a pack. Nothing better comes to my mind at the moment
> > though.
>
> pack.maxDeltaSize sounds weird when said aloud.
> How about pack.deltaMaxSize?
That sounds like, how big should a delta be? E.g. set it to 200
and any delta instruction stream over 200 bytes would be discarded,
causing the whole object to be stored instead. Which is obviously
somewhat silly, but that's the way I'd read that option...
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-28 4:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-27 10:52 Problem with large files on different OSes Christopher Jefferson
2009-05-27 11:37 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-05-27 13:02 ` Christopher Jefferson
2009-05-27 13:28 ` John Tapsell
2009-05-27 13:30 ` Christopher Jefferson
2009-05-27 13:32 ` John Tapsell
2009-05-27 14:01 ` Tomas Carnecky
2009-05-27 14:09 ` Christopher Jefferson
2009-05-27 14:22 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-05-27 14:37 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-05-27 16:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-27 16:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-27 17:22 ` Christopher Jefferson
2009-05-27 17:30 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-05-27 17:37 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-05-27 21:53 ` Jeff King
2009-05-27 22:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-27 23:09 ` Alan Manuel Gloria
2009-05-28 1:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-28 3:26 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-05-28 4:21 ` Eric Raible
2009-05-28 4:30 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2009-05-28 5:52 ` Eric Raible
2009-05-28 8:52 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-05-28 17:41 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-05-28 19:43 ` Jeff King
2009-05-28 19:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-27 23:29 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-05-28 20:00 ` Jeff King
2009-05-28 20:54 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-05-28 21:21 ` Jeff King
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