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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: pack operation is thrashing my server
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:46:40 -0400 (EDT)
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On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
> > How does one go about getting the object sizes? rev-list appears
> > to have no option for it.
> 
> With great pain.  You can use the output of verify-pack -v to
> tell you the size of the inflated portion of the object, but for
> a delta this is the inflated size of the delta, not of the fully
> unpacked object.

Delta objects have the size of the final object in their header.  There 
is get_size_from_delta() extracting that information already.  There is 
simply no interface exporting that info to external tools but that 
shouldn't be hard to add.


Nicolas