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Subject: Re: Repacking many disconnected blobs
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On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Keith Packard wrote:

> Hmm. As I'm deltafying along branches, the delta data should actually be
> fairly good; the only 'bad' result will be the sub-optimal object
> ordering in the pack files. I'll experiment with some larger trees to
> see how much additional savings the various repack options yield.

Note that the object list order is unlikely to affect pack size.  It is 
really about optimizing the pack layout for subsequent access to it.


Nicolas