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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: Are binary xdeltas only used if you use git-gc?
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:31:05 -0400 (EDT)
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Cc: Thanassis Tsiodras <ttsiodras@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
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On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 09:43:43AM +0000, Thanassis Tsiodras wrote:
> > So even though the xdelta is just 8KB, and git-gc actually finds out
> > that indeed
> > the new file is very similar to the old one, the initial commit of the
> > new version
> > in the repos is not taking advantage.
> 
> Have you tried to git repack with aggressive options, like:
> 
>     git repack --window=500 --depth=500 \
>       --window-memory=<fair amount of your physical RAM>

That wouldn't bring any benefit in this case.


Nicolas