On 10/10/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote:
If you have the path, you can reuse the whole algorithm for finding the best delta base.
Can I do that from Perl/bash? (how?)
However, if you do not have the path, you might as well just give up (if there is no perfect match for the SHA1), since the SHA1 is _not_ similar for similar contents. IOW, you'd literally have to search _all_ objects in the repository, which usually takes a long, long time.
So the delta base algorithm doesn't work without a path. I thought we had a quick way to find blobs of similar size. If the user can't even give us a filename (that we can use to try and build a likely path) then they have bigger problems than the delta ;-) -- at some point we have to provide git-paddedcell for the remaining <ahem> users. cheers, maritn - 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