Subject: Re: pack operation is thrashing my server

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:56:10 -0700 (PDT)

Nicolas Pitre <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Geert Bosch wrote:
> 
> > One nice optimization we could do for those pesky binary large objects
> > (like PDF, JPG and GZIP-ed data), is to detect such files and revert
> > to compression level 0. This should be especially beneficial
> > since already compressed data takes most time to compress again.
> 
> That would be a good thing indeed.

Perhaps take a sample of some given size and calculate entropy in it?
Or just simply add gitattribute for per file compression ratio...

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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