On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Sam Vilain wrote: > > Without compression of deltas: > > wilber:~/src/perl-preview$ du -sk .git/objects/pack/ > 86781 .git/objects/pack/ > > With compression of deltas: > > wilber:~/src/perl-preview$ du -sk .git/objects/pack/ > 72907 .git/objects/pack/ Ok, so non-compressed deltas are 20% bigger. That may well be a perfectly acceptable trade-off if the end result is then a lot faster. Has somebody done performance numbers? I may have missed them.. The best test is probably something like "git blame" on a file that takes an appreciable amount of time. Linus - 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