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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: 1.3.0 creating bigger packs than 1.2.3
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On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Shawn Pearce wrote:

> The more that I think about it the more it seems possible that the
> pathname hashing is what may be causing the problem.  Not only did
> bisect point to 1d6b38cc76c348e2477506ca9759fc241e3d0d46 but the
> directory which contains the bulk of the space has many files with
> the same name located in different directories:
[...]

But the bad commit according to your bisection talks about "thin" packs 
which are not involved in your case.  So something looks fishy with that 
commit which should not have touched path hashing in the non-thin pack 
case...  I think...


Nicolas