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Subject: Re: Are binary xdeltas only used if you use git-gc?
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:36:14 -0800
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

> Right.  Those thin packs were designed for different versions of the 
> same file in mind, not different files with almost the same content.  
> This could possibly be improved at some point...

Wouldn't using a large --window help by going across name-hash boundaries?