Re: [PATCH] relax delta selection filtering in pack-objects

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
> 
> > I haven't dug into the issue yet, but these four delta series
> > seem to break the testsuite.
> 
> I bisected.  It is the adler32 one -- since it makes the
> generated delta much smaller, it is understandable that it would
> interact with the break/rename heuristics.  It is not strictly
> breakage in that sense -- we just need to readjust the
> heuristics thresholds for those algorithms.

I had a quick look and that code rather looks like black magic to me atm.
I however found a memory leak in diffcore-rename.c:estimate_similarity():

        delta = diff_delta(src->data, src->size,
                           dst->data, dst->size,
                           &delta_size, delta_limit);
        if (!delta)
                /* If delta_limit is exceeded, we have too much differences */
                return 0;

        /* A delta that has a lot of literal additions would have
         * big delta_size no matter what else it does.
         */
        if (base_size * (MAX_SCORE-minimum_score) < delta_size * MAX_SCORE)
                return 0;
                   \________ delta memory is leaked.


Nicolas