On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 04:24:01PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > Obviously the kernel repo is doing better, but x=500 is only 4 days ago. > > Trying with --before=2.weeks.ago yields only 31505 matches. > > What does this prove? I fail to see the relation between those results > and a possible git-pack-objects improvement. My point is that the window cache gets invalidated over time, whereas a sha1 by sha1 cache doesn't. However, the point is moot, as I think Linus has come up with a much better solution. > The negative delta cache concept is certainly attractive even for normal > repositories, especially for public servers, since when used in > conjonction with delta reuse it makes the creation of a pack basically > free. So I think this idea really has merits, as long as the cache > remains small. Yes, if you're talking about a situation in which you make many packs for a given set of commits, then it does make more sense (what I was really trying to eliminate was a 10 minute repack followed by another 10 minute repack to push to the server). -Peff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Fri Jun 30 07:40:01 2006
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