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From: Eric Raible <raible@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with large files on different OSes
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 22:52:37 -0700
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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 n=
umber
>> > of deltas in a pack. =A0Nothing better comes to my mind at the mom=
ent
>> > though.
>>
>> pack.maxDeltaSize sounds weird when said aloud.
>> How about pack.deltaMaxSize?
>
> That sounds like, how big should a delta be? =A0E.g. set it to 200
> and any delta instruction stream over 200 bytes would be discarded,
> causing the whole object to be stored instead. =A0Which 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...