From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Thanassis Tsiodras <ttsiodras@gmail.com>,
Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>,
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Are binary xdeltas only used if you use git-gc?
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:57:04 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0811032053410.13034@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v3ai8tgq9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
>
> > Right. Those thin packs were designed for different versions of the
> > same file in mind, not different files with almost the same content.
> > This could possibly be improved at some point...
>
> Wouldn't using a large --window help by going across name-hash boundaries?
The issue is to decide what preferred delta base to add to the list of
objects. Currently only objects with the same path as those being
modified are considered.
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-04 1:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-31 9:43 Are binary xdeltas only used if you use git-gc? Thanassis Tsiodras
2008-10-31 11:02 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-10-31 11:16 ` Thanassis Tsiodras
2008-10-31 19:47 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-10-31 19:31 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-10-31 11:15 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-10-31 11:28 ` Thanassis Tsiodras
2008-10-31 16:26 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-10-31 16:42 ` Matthieu Moy
2008-10-31 19:53 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-01 11:54 ` Thanassis Tsiodras
2008-11-01 13:25 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-03 20:35 ` Thanassis Tsiodras
2008-11-03 20:52 ` Pieter de Bie
2008-11-03 21:42 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-03 22:53 ` Thanassis Tsiodras
2008-11-04 1:18 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-04 1:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-04 1:57 ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2008-11-04 3:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-31 17:03 ` Jean-Luc Herren
2008-10-31 12:42 ` Matthieu Moy
2008-10-31 14:22 ` Thanassis Tsiodras
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