From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: [PATCH] mkdelta enhancements Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 08:44:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <7vll62egoe.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Linus Torvalds , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 26 14:45:48 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DbHie-0007qQ-G3 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 14:44:12 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261373AbVEZMqE (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 08:46:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261376AbVEZMqE (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 08:46:04 -0400 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:59118 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261373AbVEZMqB (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 08:46:01 -0400 Received: from xanadu.home ([24.200.213.96]) by VL-MO-MR007.ip.videotron.ca (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IH3009NUKQQXU@VL-MO-MR007.ip.videotron.ca> for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 08:44:51 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: <7vll62egoe.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-X-Sender: nico@localhost.localdomain To: Junio C Hamano Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 25 May 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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. This is precisely what is done with git-deltafy-script. The mkdelta program doesn't know about object history. It only enforce delta precedence according to the order objects are listed on the command line. It's up to mkdelta users to enforce any ordering policy. Nicolas