On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I wonder if we could do even better, though. For a traversal, we only > need to look at the commit header. We could potentially do a progressive > inflate and stop before getting to the commit message (which is the bulk > of the data, and the part that is most likely to benefit from > compression). Commit cache should solve this efficiently as it also eliminates parsing cost. We discussed this last time as a side topic of the reachability bitmap feature. -- Duy -- 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