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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Preferring shallower deltas on repack
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> It would become worrysome (*BUT* infinitely more interesting)
> once you start talking about a tradeoff between slightly larger
> delta and much shorter delta.  Such a tradeoff, if done right,

s/and much shorter delta/and much shallower depth/.

Should be obvious from the context, but just in case -- without
the above correction what I said does not make any sense ;-).

> would make a lot of sense, but I do not offhand think of a way
> to strike a proper balance between them efficiently.