From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] mkdelta enhancements Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 21:48:17 -0700 Message-ID: <7vll62egoe.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linus Torvalds , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 26 06:47:01 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DbAGT-0000qK-CM for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 06:46:37 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261202AbVEZEsX (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 00:48:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261204AbVEZEsX (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 00:48:23 -0400 Received: from fed1rmmtao09.cox.net ([68.230.241.30]:7834 "EHLO fed1rmmtao09.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261202AbVEZEsV (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 00:48:21 -0400 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.4.60.172]) by fed1rmmtao09.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with ESMTP id <20050526044819.GGBN7275.fed1rmmtao09.cox.net@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>; Thu, 26 May 2005 00:48:19 -0400 To: Nicolas Pitre In-Reply-To: (Nicolas Pitre's message of "Wed, 25 May 2005 23:57:49 -0400 (EDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org I have not measured and I have not studied how the current mkdelta does things, but if you are not doing so already it may make sense to keep the later one expanded in full and represent older ones as delta, since that would give faster access to more often used items (I am assuming more recent version are likely to be accessed more frequently, which I believe is what SCMs typically do. RCS format is geared towards this AFAICR).