From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-repack: -b to pass --delta-base-offset Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:51:31 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <11607177011745-git-send-email-junkio@cox.net> <11607177024171-git-send-email-junkio@cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 13 15:53:17 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GYNSg-0000QJ-Aa for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:52:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750834AbWJMNwY (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:52:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750835AbWJMNwX (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:52:23 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:26505 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750834AbWJMNwX (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:52:23 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GYNSC-0000HG-K5 for git@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:52:03 +0200 Received: from host-81-190-17-207.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.17.207]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:52:00 +0200 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-17-207.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:52:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-17-207.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> This new option makes the resulting pack express the delta base >> with more compact "offset" format. > > Actually I thought about making it the default whenever git-pack-objects > supported it, and use a negative option with git-repack to disable it > instead. > > The fact is that there is little reason for not using delta base offsets > in most cases and specifying -b all the time would become more of an > annoyance. Perhaps we should leave it to configuretion variable, instead? And turn the new format on by default, like core.legacyHeaders -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git