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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-repack: -b to pass --delta-base-offset
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

> On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> This new option makes the resulting pack express the delta base
>> with more compact "offset" format.
>
> Actually I thought about making it the default whenever git-pack-objects 
> supported it, and use a negative option with git-repack to disable it 
> instead.
>
> The fact is that there is little reason for not using delta base offsets 
> in most cases and specifying -b all the time would become more of an 
> annoyance.
>
> What do you think?

The only time it matters is if the packs in repository being
repacked needs to be readable by older git, which I think is
only when somebody with older git uses commit walkers to
download the pack into a remote repository to use.  Using or not
using delta-base-offset is tied to each repository, and in a
sense that is similar to "repository format version".

So how about

	[core]
        	repackUseDeltaBase = true