From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff-delta: produce optimal pack data Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:57:20 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <7v4q2pf8fq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20060224174422.GA13367@hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com> <20060224183554.GA31247@hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 24 19:58:02 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FCi8E-0001Nv-FY for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 19:57:35 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932151AbWBXS5b (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:57:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932186AbWBXS5b (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:57:31 -0500 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:15766 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932151AbWBXS5a (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:57:30 -0500 Received: from xanadu.home ([24.202.136.67]) by VL-MH-MR002.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) with ESMTP id <0IV700JVUGNKN3F0@VL-MH-MR002.ip.videotron.ca> for git@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:57:20 -0500 (EST) In-reply-to: <20060224183554.GA31247@hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com> X-X-Sender: nico@localhost.localdomain To: Carl Baldwin Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Carl Baldwin wrote: > My version is 1.2.1. I have not been following your work. When was > pack data reuse introduced? Try out version 1.2.3. > From where can I obtain your delta patches? Forget them for now -- they won't help you. > There is really no opportunity for pack-data reuse in this case. The > repository had never been packed or cloned in the first place. As I > said, I do not intend to pack these binary files at all since there is > no benefit in this case. Yes there is, as long as you have version 1.2.3. The clone logic will simply reuse already packed data without attempting to recompute it. > The delta patches may help but I can't say for sure since I don't know > anything about them. They (actually the last one) might help reduce the size of resulting packs but it currently has performance problems with some patological data sets. I think you really should try git version 1.2.3 with a packed repository. It might handle your special case just fine. Nicolas