On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Carl Baldwin wrote: > > When I set the window to 0 I one more issue. Even though the blobs are > already compressed on disk I still seem to pay the penalty of inflating > them into memory and then deflating them into the pack. When the window > size is 0 this is just wasted cycles. With large binary files these > wasted cycles slow down the push/fetch operation considerably. Couldn't > the compressed blobs be copied into the pack without first deflating > them in this 0 window case? The problem is that the individual object disk format isn't actually the same as the pack-file object format for one object. The header is different: a pack-file uses a very dense bit packing, while the individual object format is a bit less dense. Sad, really, but it means that right now you can only re-use data that was already packed (when the format matches). Linus - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html