Hi, On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > > > On 8/17/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > At least, the delta-chains should be limited by size (_not_ by number of > > > > deltas: you can have huge deltas, and if you have to unpack 5 huge deltas > > > > before getting to the huge delta you really need, it takes really long). > > > > > > This is not an obvious conclusion. > > > > The big win is bought by having _one_ zlib stream for multiple deltas, > > right? > > > > So, everytime you want to access the _last_ delta in the chain, you unpack > > _all_ of them. > > This is the case whether deltas are separately deflated or not. Oh, now I get it! The delta chain is comprised of exactly those deltas which are needed to reconstruct a certain object from another object which was stored undeltified in the pack. Now it makes sense to me that they could be bundled before being deflated. In the pack-index, the objects of that delta-chain could just point to the delta-chain object. Which has a mini-index in its extended header. Or did I misunderstand again? Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: 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