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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: david@lang.hm
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, Dana How <danahow@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent megablobs from gunking up git packs
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 18:29:47 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705241828160.4648@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705241020450.21766@asgard.lang.hm>

Hi,

On Thu, 24 May 2007, david@lang.hm wrote:

> On Thu, 24 May 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> 
> > Now #3 is actually really important here.  Don't forget that we
> > *just* disabled the fancy "new loose object format".  It doesn't
> > exist.  We can read the packfile-like loose objects, but we cannot
> > write them anymore.  So lets say we explode a megablob into a loose
> > object, and its 800 MiB by itself.  Now we have to send that object
> > to a client.  Yes, that's right, we must *RECOMPRESS* 800 MiB for
> > no reason.  Not the best choice.  Maybe we shouldn't have deleted
> > that packfile formatted loose object writer...
> 
> when did the object store get changed so that loose objects aren't
> compressed?

That never happened. But we had a different file format for loose objects, 
which was meant to make it easier to copy as-is into a pack. That file 
format went away, since it was not as useful as we hoped.

Ciao,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-24 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-22  6:14 [PATCH] Prevent megablobs from gunking up git packs Dana How
2007-05-22  6:30 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-22  7:33   ` Dana How
2007-05-22  6:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-22  8:00   ` Dana How
2007-05-22 11:05     ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-22 16:59       ` Dana How
2007-05-22 23:44         ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-23  0:28           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-23  1:58             ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-05-22 17:38 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-05-22 18:07   ` Dana How
2007-05-23 22:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-23 23:55   ` Dana How
2007-05-24  1:44     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-24  7:12       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-24  9:38         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-24 17:23         ` david
2007-05-24 17:29           ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-05-25  0:55             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-24 20:43         ` Geert Bosch
2007-05-24 23:29         ` Dana How
2007-05-25  2:06           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-25  5:44             ` Nicolas Pitre

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