From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: [RFC] repack vs re-clone Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:40:00 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Marco Costalba , git mailing list To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Feb 11 20:40:55 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JOeWD-0005sR-0Y for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:40:45 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757435AbYBKTkH (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:40:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757162AbYBKTkH (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:40:07 -0500 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:32916 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756922AbYBKTkF (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:40:05 -0500 Received: from xanadu.home ([66.131.194.97]) by VL-MO-MR005.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-4.01 (built Aug 3 2007; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0JW3004QYAMHLU30@VL-MO-MR005.ip.videotron.ca> for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:39:53 -0500 (EST) X-X-Sender: nico@xanadu.home In-reply-to: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote: > [*1*] I hope that '--no-reuse-delta' means _try_ to find better delta, > but use current one as possible delta, not stupid forget about current > deltaification at all... It is really "forget about everything". And by the time you look for the best delta from scratch, remembering what was the best delta before won't give you much performance gain, plus it has nasty issues like making sure no delta cycles are created if you reuse an old delta, etc. Nicolas