On Sat, 21 Apr 2007, Marco Costalba wrote: > On 4/21/07, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 4/21/07, Marco Costalba <mcostalba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Well, why to store always the full length SHA? > > > > When Shawn gets done with full compression the SHAs would get stored > > in the packfile once and then be replaced with a token generated from > > the compression algorithm. Compression tokens are designed to use the > > minimal number of bits depending on frequency of occurrence. > > > > Currently in Lunux tree there are about 445.424 objects (git > count-objects -v), if each object has his 40 bytes name it is about > 20MB to store sha *once*, probably with no real disambiguate need to > be that much. Object names aren't 40 bytes. They are 20 bytes. It is their hex representation that takes 40 bytes. Nicolas - 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