On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > If we want to be really aggressive, we migth decide to pass a new flag to > > pack-objects that does something closer to what "aggressive" was meant to > > do: it would use existing delta's if they exist, but _despite_ existing it > > could look if there are even better choices. > > This is a totally untested patch that may or may not work. > > The reason I say "may not work" is not just that I haven't really tested > it, it's also because I haven't thought it through very well. > > In particular, does this possibly cause infinite loops of delta chains? > Probably. It would need code to explicitly make sure that we don't do > that, but I couldn't even convince myself as to why we might not hit that > case _already_ with delta re-use, so maybe there's something going that > protects us against it. There is. > Anyway, consider this a starting point for somebody else who wants to > really try to look into this. This is a real teaser. But I have real work to do if I want to leave on vacation this summer, and therefore I'll then be on vacation. So if I end up looking at it myself it will be in September. 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
