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From:
Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>
Subject:
Re: reuse deltas while packing
To:
Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Cc:
gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date:
Wed, 9 Feb 2022 16:22:34 +0100

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  • Christian Weisgerber:

    reuse deltas while packing

  • Stefan Sperling:

    reuse deltas while packing

  • On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 03:47:47PM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
    > Christian Weisgerber:
    > 
    > > I cloned a pristine copy of FreeBSD src.git, and I'm currently
    > > exploding the pack file with "git unpack-objects" into a few million
    > > loose objects.  That should give me something to test.
    > 
    > $ time gotadmin info
    > repository: /usr/obj/test1.git
    > pack files: 0
    
    With zero pack files you do not have any deltas yet, so no deltas
    can be reused.
    
    > So, no problems, but no difference in speed either.
    
    Try it again with 'gotadmin pack -a' and with a large pack file
    already present in the repository. Then delta-reuse should kick in.
    
    
    
  • Christian Weisgerber:

    reuse deltas while packing

  • Stefan Sperling:

    reuse deltas while packing