Re: [RFC] Cache negative delta pairs

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: 2006-06-30 07:39:29
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 02:30:11PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> However, that is obviously also the dis-advantage, since it means that 
> repacking cannot improve packing. So adding a flag to say "please try to 
> incrementally improve the pack" might well be worth it, even if this new 
> behaviour would be the _default_.

We could tie the on/off to --no-reuse-delta, since you would mostly
want them at the same time. This disallows repacking over and over to
try to incrementally improve size. Do people actually do that?

> Hmm? Jeff, does this work for your load?

Yes, just as well as my original patch.

-Peff
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