Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Honor core.deltaBaseCacheLimit during index-pack

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:54:38 -0700 (PDT)

Johannes Schindelin <[email-masked]> writes:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> > The only other alternative I can come up with is to change pack-objects 
> > (or at least its defaults) so we don't generate these massive delta 
> > chains.  But there are already packs in the wild that use these chains, 
> > resulting in performance problems for clients.
> 
> But the long chains make the pack actually as efficient as it is...

Perhaps Shawn thought here about limiting delta chain not by its
*length*, but by its *size* (as required when unpacking last object
in a delta chanin).

What do you think about this idea?
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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