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From: "Dana How" <danahow@gmail.com>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, danahow@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Teach "delta" attribute to pack-objects.
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 09:10:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56b7f5510705190910h7e5ed03bnbc5a1b9a1369fc9f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11795608922961-git-send-email-junkio@cox.net>

On 5/19/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> This teaches pack-objects to use .gitattributes mechanism so
> that the user can specify certain blobs are not worth spending
> CPU cycles to attempt deltification.
>
> The name of the attrbute is "delta", and when it is set to
> false, like this:
>
>         == .gitattributes ==
>         *.jpg   -delta
>
> they are always stored in the plain-compressed base object
> representation.

And we could also have an attribute "repack" :
    == .gitattributes ==
    *.wmv    -repack
which would result in *.wmv files [enormous] not being packed.
Since add_object_entry() now gets the name and
can reject objects (e.g. currently on their current packing status),
a call to "no_pack" which mirrors your new "no_try_delta"
could be inserted there.  But such an attribute should be
ignored when --stdout is in effect -- it only affects on-disk
repacking, not packing for transfers, which is why it's named "repack".

-- 
Dana L. How  danahow@gmail.com  +1 650 804 5991 cell

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-19 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-19  7:48 [PATCH 1/2] pack-objects: pass fullname down to add_object_entry() Junio C Hamano
2007-05-19  7:48 ` [PATCH 2/2] Teach "delta" attribute to pack-objects Junio C Hamano
2007-05-19 16:10   ` Dana How [this message]
2007-05-19 20:03     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-19 23:56       ` Dana How
2007-05-22 16:04   ` Nicolas Pitre

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