Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > >>Johannes Schindelin wrote: >>> >>>>Without this there would never be a chance to improve packing for >>>>previously undeltified objects. >>> >>> >>>Earlier this year, I was quite surprised to learn that multiple repackings >>>actually improved packing. Does that patch mean this feature is gone? >>> >> >>The patch Linus sent removes that feature. This one re-introduces it. > > > Not really. > > Actually that multiple repacking "feature" was rather an artifact of the > delta data reuse code and not really by design. Here's what happened > before: > Thanks for the extensive and very clear info. Lovely to see a competent programmer who can also explain how things work. :) -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 - 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 Mon Jul 03 18:11:38 2006
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