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From: Eric Raible <raible@gmail.com>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem with large files on different OSes
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 22:52:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <279b37b20905272252i3d98b6bv698ff636d61ee058@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090528043019.GA30527@spearce.org>

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> 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.

You're right, that _is_ a strange color for the bike shed...

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-28  5:52 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
2009-05-28  5:52                       ` Eric Raible [this message]
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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