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From: "Craig Schlenter" <craig@codefountain.com>
To: "Josef Weidendorfer" <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Petr Baudis" <pasky@suse.cz>
Subject: Re:  Balanced packing strategy
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 05:03:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <W4340426396265721131944586@webmail12> (raw)

Hi

> From: Josef Weidendorfer [mailto:Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de]
> [snip]
> AFAICS, the git native protocol (which is nothing more than a pack itself
> for each transfer) even has this problem, too: If you are updating every
> day via git native, the sum of transfered bytes in a month will be a
> multiple of one git transfer for all the month's changes.

Interesting ... is this because in a bigger pack the compression will
be better as there is probably more stuff to "delta" against?

--Craig

             reply	other threads:[~2005-11-14  5:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-14  5:03 Craig Schlenter [this message]
2005-11-14 10:24 ` Balanced packing strategy Josef Weidendorfer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-12 13:04 Remove unneeded packs Marcel Holtmann
2005-11-12 13:40 ` Craig Schlenter
2005-11-12 13:59   ` Balanced packing strategy Petr Baudis
2005-11-12 15:14     ` Craig Schlenter
2005-11-13  2:34       ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-13 11:00         ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-13 20:06     ` Josef Weidendorfer
2005-11-13 23:13       ` Junio C Hamano

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