On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Jeff King wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 10:45:31PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > Yet that progress display isn't solely about "delta compressing". It > > also includes the search for best object match in order to keep the > > smallest delta possible. > > In fact, isn't that progress meter _solely_ about finding the best > matches? The actual deltification (that is, the creation of the deltas > and writing of them to the packfile happens during the writing phase -- > unless, of course, we've cached the deltas during the search phase). Well, to find which combination is the smallest you actually have to create deltas. > Perhaps one of: > > Finding deltas > Finding delta candidates > Matching objects > > or something similar (though I don't especially like any of them, I > think you get the idea). I think we might sidestep the issue entirely by remaining somewhat vague and simply saying "compressing objects" for that phase. This is the part responsible for the reduction of a Git repository from 3GB down to 200MB anyway. 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
