Re: [PATCH 2/2] Teach "delta" attribute to pack-objects.

["Dana How" <danahow@gmail.com>]

On 5/19/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> "Dana How" <danahow@gmail.com> writes:
> > ...  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".
>
> Yes -- if we want to have an option to keep objects selectively
> left out of packs in loose format, you would need 'repack' which
> acts differently between the server-feeding-client case vs
> packing-repository case.
>
> Which is a bigger change that I did not want to show in the
> quick-and-clean patch, but I would agree we would want both.

OK -- I'll put this on the back-burner with the so-called
"ent:relative" patch and I'll revisit this once your "delta"
attribute shows up in next or master.

At the moment I'm experimenting on a git repository with
a 4.5GB checkout,  and 18 months of history in 4K commits
comprising 100GB (uncompressed) of blobs stored in
7 packfiles of 2GB or less.  Hopefully I'll be able to say
more about tweaking packing shortly.

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