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From:   Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: git-fast-import yields huge packfile
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On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 02:04:33PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 1:31 PM Richard Hipp <drh@sqlite.org> wrote:
> >
> > Maybe I'm doing something wrong with the fast-import stream that is
> > defeating Git's attempts at delta compression....
> 
> fast-import doesn't do fancy delta compression becayse that would
> defeat the "fast" part of fast-import.

fast-import however does try to do delta compression of blobs against the
last blob that was imported, so if you put your blobs in an order where
they can be delta-ed, you can win without a git repack.

For one-shot conversions, you can just rely on git repack.

Mike