From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Craig Schlenter" Subject: Re: Balanced packing strategy Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 05:03:06 +0000 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Petr Baudis" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 14 06:03:37 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EbWVB-0001IH-Cr for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 06:03:33 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750916AbVKNFDP (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:03:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750917AbVKNFDO (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:03:14 -0500 Received: from mail.networksolutionsemail.com ([205.178.146.50]:38599 "HELO mail.networksolutionsemail.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750915AbVKNFDO (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:03:14 -0500 Received: (qmail 24855 invoked by uid 78); 14 Nov 2005 05:03:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO webmail12) (205.178.146.50) by 10.49.34.58 with SMTP; 14 Nov 2005 05:03:06 -0000 Received: from 196.34.54.66 (unverified [196.34.54.66]) by webmail12 (VisualOffice 4.01) with WEBMAIL id 26572; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 05:03:06 +0000 To: "Josef Weidendorfer" , git@vger.kernel.org Importance: Normal Sensitivity: Normal X-Mailer: Mintersoft VisualOffice, Build 4.01.1003 X-Originating-IP: [196.34.54.66] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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