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. :)
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