Re: [RFC] Cache negative delta pairs

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On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > Instead of having a separate cache, wouldn't it be much better to just 
> > take the hint from the previous pack-file?
> 
> DOH!  ;-)

Btw, I think this could do with a flag to turn it on/off (but probably 
default to on).

The advantage of this patch is that it should guarantee that if everything 
is already packed, a repack will basically keep the pack identical. 

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_.

Hmm? Jeff, does this work for your load?

		Linus
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